The Cynical Historian

Last Samurai | Based on a True Story (2015x15)

Air date: Aug 24, 2015

The Last Samurai movie is an award winning work, but it is also a bastardization of reality. Come see why it is so vile in its contempt of the very history it wishes to portray. Anachronism be damned. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/VuCrGwDNI8E related: https://youtu.be/VGHT2yn9cwM ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Ravina, Mark. The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. https://amzn.to/2ueOlm2 http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/2746 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Samurai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saig%C5%8D_Takamori ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic historical war film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz. The film stars Tom Cruise, who also co-produced, with Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Koyuki, and Shin Koyamada in supporting roles. Tom Cruise portrays a formerly retired officer of the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment, whose personal and emotional conflicts bring him into contact with samurai warriors in the wake of the Meiji Restoration in 19th Century Japan. The film's plot was inspired by the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion led by Saigō Takamori, and the westernization of Japan by foreign powers, though in the film the United States is portrayed as the primary force behind the push for westernization. To a lesser extent it is also influenced by the stories of Jules Brunet, a French army captain who fought alongside Enomoto Takeak