Re: FN-FORUM: Original Last Samuri

date posted 27th January 2004 12:52

i think ppl are mistaking Kurosawa's classic 'Shichinin no samurai'
(aka 'Seven Samurai')
that was remade into 'The Magnificent Seven' in the 60's (Clint
Eastwood flick)

The Tom Cruise(sic) flick "The Last Samurai" is very loosely based on
historical events.

In fact, "the last samurai" is not Tom Cruises character at all, as
most seem to think. It is the character Katsumoto who is based on the
historical last Samurai Takamori Saigo...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471089702/202-8690740-0677404



The only problem with which, IMHO, is that Tom Cruise's character
didn't get mowed down along with the rest of them...


yadda yadda.......


On 27 Jan 2004, at 13:23, Business A2Z wrote:

> Cheers Dan ;)
>
> I believe the original was in Japanese and possibly was set in the 60's
>
> Andrew