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"The Last Samurai" is also an unrelated book by Helen DeWitt published in 2000.
I added in a setting section.-- KevinKao 07:16, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
I fixed up the main article and chucked the last bit about being filmed in NZ into a trivia section. -- Woogums 13:18, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I changed the link of the critique. The one supplied lead to nowhere. -- Mourning Electra 7:57, 22 April 2006
Do we know on what person or group of people that the title is referencing? How do we know that it is plural (as the article suggests), when that all other languages with plural/singular distinction have it in singular? Andelarion 15:21, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Removed. Andelarion 17:43, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Also, Samurai as it tends to be used is an expression of an ideaology, not specifically as a plural people. For example, when someone says "They (plural) were Samurai", they're really saying that group was of the Samurai belief system. Similarly, think "They were Christian" or "They were Buddhist". But if someone said THE Last Samurai, it should be clear it's one person. "The Last Christian" is one person. "The Last Jesuit" would be one person. etc. 69.176.41.195 20:06, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
From the article : Some of the Japanese, Asian American, as well as general viewing audiences were appalled or insulted by the seemingly ethnocentric notion that a Caucasian-American would so quickly be able to adopt an ancient art and ultimately become "The Last Samurai."
What is the jusitification or evidence for this claim? It needs a reference, otherwise its just conjecture. I live in Japan, and I have never met any Japanese person who has done anything other than praise the film. It was extremely popular here, and did good box office. One of my Japanese friends described it as "the first time Hollywood has tried to respect our culture and history". I also never saw any news items in the media claiming dissatisfaction. Saiing 13:43, 7 March 2006 (JST)
If you recall the events surrounding Rising Sun, where a movie that merely had Japanese elements was screamed at for racism and such, largely by overtly PC western hysterics, we easily see that the outrage regarding the idenity of the Last Samurai is indeed the small minded acting rashly and harshly without thinking or even bothering to check the facts. Another example was the supposed racism of Ghettopoly, and upon investigation, as people marched and boycotted, the maker was a minority himself. I have seen far more people turn on the false opinion of this movie and so have added the following to at least let people know why they say it, and what it more likely is. Cruise is an actor, not the writer or the director, and thus his words have no relevance to this matter. One wonders if there would have been quite as much furor if Mr Cruise had stated on "War of the Worlds" that it was his character who was instrumental in figuring out that the aliens were being defeated by bacteria, and was thus responsible for saving the world. Would anyone have believed such a statement and then ranted as heartily as they have against this movie? Or would they have assumed that it was an actor assuming that because they are the headline name, they are also the core of the film and its very basis?
"However, the movie itself does not state that the Captain is "The Last Samurai" rather he is an observer who becomes embroiled in their ways. The fate of Katsumoto is the catalyst to the Emperor’s reversal of stance on closer ties with America, and Algren is just the messenger who delivers the sword that has served Japan for 900 years to reveal what he died for and what he hoped to achieve through this death. It is Katsumoto who is mourned for, even by the very troops responsible for his death, and throughout the film, Algren is usually referred to merely as “The American”. It is Katsumoto who is “The Last Samurai” and it is now widely believed that the outrage that surrounded the movies release was an overreaction, such as that surrounding “Rising Sun” where it was again assumed that a Japanese orientated movie made by western hands and with a strong western lead actor could not possibly portray the culture and people in a flattering light."
-- Bruce McLachlan 8:10, 1 June 2006
I'd echo the statement made by Saiing above. The critical statement in this article's introduction implies a groundless split between origins of positive opinions (held by non-Japanese and Asian-American audiences) and negative opinions (held by Japanese and Asian-American audiences who were often "unimpressed or insulted"). I was living in Kyoto when the film was released - Cruise even hosted a premiere party at Nijo Castle - and I've never seen a film so overwhelmingly adored as this was. As a teacher, I talked to literally hundreds of men and women of every age who loved "Last-o Samurai" with a fervor that stomped all over "Titanic" or "Lord of the Rings" at their respective heights in the US. None of them were professors of Japanese history, of course - it seems to me that the film bothered foreign scholars and enthusiasts of Japanese history much more than it did the Japanese public in general. (Myself included - I found a lot of it questionable, for reasons that puzzled my students whenever I brought them up. There's no way in hell, for example, that Taka and the women of the village would welcome Algren back after the rest of the samurai died on the battlefield.)
Compare this to the reaction to "Memoirs of a Geisha" - a film that received a thoroughly chilly reception in Japan. Gorilla Jones 04:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
I think the reason why there is so much controversy whether or on the movie is racist because of people's opnion on the movie. First off, I think the movie is racist and encourages the stereotypical notion that the white guy can do anything, but better. For me, it is not so much of the title, but the content inside. I mean she woos the wife of a samurai he killed. I don't think he would get away with it that easily if that happens in real life. As the article said, it is a an old way to promote racism and clonialization. If the movie was set in Africa and the asian characters were replace with people from North Africa, you will hear a string of complaints from the AA community.
However, I can see why other people such as the general public in Japan praise the movie. They live in a society where almost everyone is asian and it is common for them to see asian couples on Television. In the U.S. it is different. For those out there, asian americans are different when compared to asians, therefore their opinions on things are going to be different. As I said eariler, people in Japan are used to seeing asians in the media while in the U.S., it is rare, especially asian american males. Furthermore, the Japanese public had a different expectation of the film in thinking that Hollywood doesn't respect Japan in films. However, when they watched the film, they realized how much the american film kept the beliefs, culture, and ideas of the samurai rather than adding modernize elements like the memoirs of a gesha have did. In America, however, asian americans expect the movie to be nothing more than a Hollywood movie that focuses more on Tom Cruise than the asian male characters. Furthermore, America is more aware of racism than Japan, so people are going to see it more clearly than those living in Japan. In other words, I think the way asian characters are treated in the U.S. media in the past is the reason of such negativity towards the movie from Asian Americans. -- Doomzaber 21:41, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I watched this film last night (actually I couldn't be bothered with the last few minutes but I got the general idea). In general the film is very bad indeed. It has much in common (I thought) with Dances with Wolves and The Postman. In fact they are almost indistinguishable. I didn't think that it was particularly racist, but it was, like so many American films, somewhat ethnocentric and, like so many American films (and a fair number of UK ones), very very crap. On Sunday I watched And God Created Woman, and that's little better although slightly more thought-provoking perhaps. 62.232.34.3 ( talk) 07:33, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
You are not the best critics of the movie. Trying to infer underlying tones such as racism and pretending Tom Cruise was the best Samurai on the battle field. Obviously this is not the case. This movie is about an American who finds beauty on the ways of the Samurai and overcomes the hatred of the old japanese culture. If there are a few things that aren't realistic enough for you, stick to watching grass grow. There is nothing terrible about this film, but nice try at sounding cultured. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dovemb ( talk • contribs) 23:23, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Anyone else notice that no matter which side Tom Cruise was on, he always played the underdog? People always root for the underdog JayKeaton 16:38, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Its an inherrent part of these formulaic hollywood films: good guy is hard done by, good guy undergoes some transformation (usually shown with a montage), good guy wins over the bad guys.
Except for Rain Man. Of course Rain Man is not quite the standard formulaic Hollywood flick. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.56.100.129 ( talk) 21:53, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
In the U.S., some audiences, "particularly among Asian-Americans and Japanese," were unimpressed or even insulted, by the seemingly "racist, naïve" notion of a "white man teaching the rapidly modernizing Japanese how to honor their past," and ultimately become The Last Samurai.
We need specific people saying those things. See: [ [1]] or [ [2]]. The Yahoo Groups link just says that there were negative reviews. That means the Yahoo Groups link is a secondary source, not a primary source. The quotes from Tom Long and Tomomi Katsuta are primary sources - they are not summaries / generalizations about reviews, they are reviews. Also, the Yahoo Groups link doesn't support the idea that Japanese and Asian-American audiences held those specific views about this film - that they were "unimpressed or often insulted" - it merely says that there was heated debate over whether the several films mentioned were good or bad. You need to find a primary source, which would be people engaging in that actual debate, and quote it. (Tom Long, for the record, is neither Japanese nor Asian-American: see [3].) Gorilla Jones 05:42, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
May someone add the main character, Nathan Algren, is a fictional free inspiration of the French officer Jules Brunet? This is not the first time that Hollywood obfuscates or exploits facts (remember U571). Thanks ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.245.197.225 ( talk) 16:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
"BIG FAT TITTIES!!!!!"
Very, very unprofessional. This comment, which I have deleted from the actual article, is not only rude but rather vulgar. Whoever this was, please don't do it again.-- Aznpride05 23:16, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I try to clean up things here and there - note there seems to be some parts of simple grammar/spelling mistakes - really need someone to proof-read this again.
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59.167.68.37 12:51, 6 September 2007 (UTC){imnothere
Ok, the end of the film does insinuate that Nathan survived the battle. But shouldn't the possibility of him dying(as stated in the narration at the end of the film that some said he had died) be noted in the article?
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Why? The film shows him finding his way back to Taka and nothing in the presentation of that ending is straight-forward and un-stylised, which to me is a clear indication that the intention of the film makers was to say that he did survive his wounds and found Taka and lived happily until the timely end of his days. (Instead of dying in the battle like he should've, but that's just personal opinion.) Magnulus
80.202.255.8 (
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Did anyone else see the comparisons to this movie? I found an interesting imdb forum post on this. [4]
Choice bits:
When I watched the Last Samurai my first thought was, wow this is just like Dances with Wolves. That movie is about an american who is captured by a foreign force of traditionalists in a country with a different culture, and who later acculturates so strongly into that culture that he abandons his old values and fights the injustices in his own country. There may be other simularities. Maybe the creators of the Last Samurai ripped ideas from Dances with Wolves?
I thought the same thing. Although I love both movies, I call The Last Samurai .... "Dances with Samurai"
I felt like it was more similar to Lawrance of the Arabia. A man who is in love with another culture and becomes in some way an inspiration and a leader to them.
I wouldn't so much call him a leader but rather an "akicita"--a warrior or soldier who defended the group and became one the them.
I saw some similarities with "Little Big Man" in that the protaginist finds self-respect in a traditonal culture which is contrasted with the then current North American culture. In both movies, American culture is depicted as a culture based upon crass capitalism with Tom Cruise hustling rifles at a carnival and Dustin Hoffman hustling patent medicine. Both men lose all self respect and turn to drink, with Dustin Hoffman ending literally in the gutter. Only when the become part of tradional communities do they regain their self-respect and sense of purpose. Both movies also depict the massacre of Indians by the 7th cavalry at Wounded Knee - which was the important background for understanding Tom Cruise's loss of self-respect and pivotal in Dustin Hofffman's life also. In both cases the protagnoists seek and achieve revenge for the massacre in the final battle scenes of the movies. One might also look at some of the similarities of Native American culture and traditional Japanese culture where the values are depicted as different from Western culture but also in some important ways, of a higher order. 166.67.66.5 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:41, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
I changed the line from "Bagley flees the field", to "Bagley withdraws from the field". I wouldn't exactly call it fleeing. He was in the right, and Algren was in the wrong, as the US Servicemembers were there strictly as noncombatants advising the army. However, as the Japanese General himself refused to fight, Captain Algren and Sergeant Gant, through a sense of loyalty to "their men", remained behind to fight, in direct defiance of US and international law. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.50.151.8 ( talk) 15:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC).
I'm probably terribly wrong, but it a soldier in the Emperor's army convincingly seems to played by Shichinosuke Nakamura. I couldn't find any reference to such in IMDB, much less in the ending texts. The soldier is visible right after the leaders of the two sides have met before the final battle, when the camera goes through imperial troops. The time on DVD is 01:49:58. Would someone know a way to be certain whether he is Shichinosuke Nakamura or not?
Contrary to the article's assertions, Last Samurai actually received quite favorable reviews in the US. The film holds a 66% "fresh" rating at critic aggregator Rottentomatoes ( http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_samurai/) and a 7.8 rating at IMDB.com ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/). It was also hailed by several critics as "one of 2003's best [films]." The article should be amended to reflect that the film actually received, on the whole, a positive reception from US critics. - PassionoftheDamon 08:18, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
It's very important to the film and it has to be included in the "plot" section. Capt Algren pointed out that there is a chance, just like the Spartans, can win against overwhelming odds. The tactics & the use of terrain were also demonstrated in the movie. TheAsianGURU ( talk) 19:54, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Around the edges of the promotional picture are the kanji for " Bushidō, "武士道". I don't see a way to incorporate this into it, but I think it would be helpful for anyone who didn't know what the kanji means. モーモー ? talk to moo 00:40, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
In the "cast" section of the article, we can find the following:
"Shun Sugata as Nakao, a tall judo and naginata-skilled samurai"
There seems to be a problem with it, namely the "judo" part. As Kano Jigoro, at the time the movie takes place, hadn't even begun his jujutsu training, to say nothing of creating his own martial art of judo, Nakao obviously can't be skilled in judo. I didn't edit the article, however, because I'm not sure if it's an error in the article or merely an anachronism in the movie itself. If the former is the case, it should be corrected. If the latter - I think it would make sense to add a comment that Nakao's being skilled in judo is an anachronism. Oddtail ( talk) 20:15, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
^ http://www.variety.com/ac2004_review/VE1117922542?nav=reviews&categoryid=1657&cs=1
This link goes to a suddenlink search engine so it can not be used. If someone can find the actual source, then they can put it in. Thesniperremix ( talk) 08:55, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
I've made some changes. Using a source describing receipts to show the Japanese public really loved it isn't proper - receipts prove receipt figures. Also it's really bad to say that American reviews were less positive than Japanese ones (again uncited) when the comment on Japanese reviews is that they were generally positive. So US reviews were less than generally positive. No, that doesn't work. Start again.
Metacritic and RT scores can't be disputed and are just stated as fact.
It still has some problems including the generalisation that critical reception in Japan was "generally positive" - I think we need a source for that and then to attribute the comment to that source. Otherwise that comment should be pulled too. John Smith's ( talk) 22:40, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
I'm writing a report on The Last Samurai that depicts the accuracies and the inaccuracies of the movie compared to the actual Meiji era. If someone could sort out a page showing those, I'd be glad to help them with anything they need here at Wikipedia. Thanks. Qotsa37 ( talk) 12:32, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
"Before they can be adequately trained, Algren is ordered to take them into battle against a group of samurai rebels led by samurai daimyo Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe) to protect Omura's investment in a new railway." Fixed that. Katsumoto is leading the samurai rebellion but he's not the daimyo. The daimyo (master) of those samurai is the Emperor of Japan (the Mikado). Kuky88 ( talk) 09:41, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
'Although Commodore Perry is credited with opening Japan to foreign contacts in 1854,', you are kidding me right? The English & Portuguese had opened up Japan to Western involvement back in the 1600's!
As of the 1980's, american school books usually spoke of Commodore Perry in regards to 'gunboat diplomacy' in which the USA apparently sent diplomatic and commercial offers to the japanese, backed up by the looming threat of american warships. Text books make it sound like the other nations had not gotten very far with the japanese in regards to getting them to open their ports to forgieners. It was recounted in one I read how during a party in which a small steam powered train was put on demonstration to impress the japanese one of the japanese diplomats became so overwhelmed with either joy or amazement at the device that he started hugging all over one of the america officials. So it seems we credit Commodore Perry for truely getting the japanese to open up to trade agreements and the like with a combination of intimidation and bribery of a sort. If that holds true or not currrently in american school books I am uncertain. - 2s1m — Preceding unsigned comment added by Two Suns One Moon ( talk • contribs) 19:27, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
The film contains indeed historic errors. The fire arms were known to the Japanese since the the 16th century. The first europeans to arrive in Japan, the Portuguese, introduced fire arms which were used by local warlords to defeat their regional enemies. Japan became unified and the so called Japanese middle age ended. The following centuries were the period of Japanese isolation, in which only the Dutch and the Chinese were allowed to have a trading post in Japan. The isolation period ended in the 19th century by American threat with gunboats. It's in the 19th century that saw American involvement in Japan, but the fire weapons were already known and used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.92.32.63 ( talk) 13:23, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
I would like to know why User:TheOldJacobite keeps reverting my rewrite of this article's plot summary. He reverted my first revision due to length. After I cut the summary down to 700 words, he reverted it for the second time citing that it was a "completely unnecessary" change. Another user undid his revision, and he has now reverted it for the third time, stating "No attempt was even made to justify that much longer and overlinked version." I am relatively new to Wikipedia and unfamiliar with the intricacies of the policies, so I would like to ask whether this user's reversions are justified, or whether my revision is violating some sort of policy. -- Guest206125 ( talk) 20:26, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
The horde of men Omura sent, that night time ambush during the NOH performance, is not mentioned here..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.114.74.199 ( talk) 09:09, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Not moved. No such user ( talk) 08:51, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
The Last Samurai →
The Last Samurai (film) – I'll go with whatever the consensus is, but I do want to put forward the argument that there is no primary topic for the term "The Last Samurai," and therefore a disambiguation page is appropriate. The book "The Last Samurai," which shares a title with but otherwise bears no relationship with the movie released three years later, is considered a masterpiece of contemporary literary fiction.
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[4] I do wonder if this might be a case of a topic being important in film being granted a prejudiced precedence from the Wikipedia community vs. a topic being important in literature. I don't mean to suggest that the book should take its place as the primary topic, but simply that the threshold "there are two topics to which a given title might refer" applies in this case. What does everyone think?
Countercouper (
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References
IP editor 82.66.140.213 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) persists in removing the link white savior narrative in film from the "See also" section as seen here. This is in spite of reliable sources identifying the white savior trope in The Last Samurai, including Professor Hughey's sociological book The White Savior Film. Per WP:SEEALSO, the "See also" section is for linking to tangentially related topics, and the relationship of this film to the trope is clearly evidenced. It should not be removed because someone does not like it. Erik ( talk | contrib) ( ping me) 19:18, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
In general, the "See also" section is meant to include links to articles not linked to in the rest of the article that would be linked if the article were brought up to GA status. In other words, if a reasonably detailed discussion of the film would mention the "white savior narrative", a link might be appropriate.
In cases where the connection is not immediately obvious, an explanatory note is a good idea, such as the one Erik has been including. However, the current note can only make the connection apparent by referring to material not obvious in the article.
IMO, the best way to resolve the current situation is to determine if a sourced discussion belongs in the article. If sources supporting the connection are strong enough, such an addition would be an improvement. If not, the bare link in "See also" is off-topic. The question, IMO, is the strength of the source(s). Some random blogger mentions it? That's trivial. Journal articles on the sociology of film regularly cite this film as a primary example of the trope? It should definitely be here. I'm guessing this one is somewhere in between those extremes. - SummerPhD v2.0 14:34, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
I don't believe this is a strong example of the trope. TV Tropes lists it as an example of the "Mighty Whitey" trope, which is a supertrope of (contains) the white savior trope, but even under that classification, it only states, "The Last Samurai has many elements of this." The full text is here, under Film examples. If you'll notice, that article also lists Avatar and Dances With Wolves as examples of the trope. However, only Avatar is a good example of the "white savior" subtrope of the "Mighty Whitey" supertrope. As you can see, of these three movies, only Avatar gives the white hero enough power to become the savior of the traditional peoples; he becomes their best fighter and leads them to a victory over the colonial invaders. The article goes on to say that Dances With Wolves, which you'll note as being cited on this talk page as having many similarities to this film, is a "weak example at best," due mostly to the fact that Kevin Costner's character "acquits himself well in battle, but not significantly better than his fellow tribesmen, and he was already a professional soldier before joining them." In The Last Samurai, Algren does not become a godlike warrior like the white savior Sully in Avatar. He is not even respected by all of the samurai, and he only once "defeats" his trainer, but that should actually be considered a tie. Algren does act as an advisor-general alongside Katsumoto in the battle, but that is not because he is the savior of the samurai, it is because he is familiar with the colonial army's tactics and weaponry, from his history as a man who helped train them. If you'll remember, the samurai do not win their battle; they lose. Algren kills his personal nemesis, Colonel Bagley, but he does not kill the General, Omura. For these reasons, The Last Samurai is not a great example of the white savior trope. Though elements of the "Mighty Whitey" supertrope are present, including 1) a white person "going native" after living with them, 2) the native General's daughter falling in love with the white person, and 3) the white person fighting alongside the natives against a foreign invader, The Last Samurai does not include the key elements of the white savior trope, which are 1) that the white person becomes the best fighter among the natives, marking him as The Great White Hope (because without him, they would definitely lose), and 2) that the natives win their battle against the invaders. Satou4 ( talk) 13:24, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
I think this discussion is pointless. That link to the other wiki page is irrelevant, as there is historical precedent for foreign-born Samurai reigning from Europe, and although the movie isn't historically accurate, it's not trying to be and serves as a romanticized outsiders perspective on a culture, and it's trying to tell a story. There indeed is an agenda-driven push to shove that stupid wiki page link into damn near every film page starring a white character in virtually any setting that isn't Europe. I think the link should be kept out on the basis of the fact that there is historical precedent, and the fact that he isn't actually a savior of anything in the film. (and even if he was, so what?) 2601:49:1:5316:8D6:B3F8:62D4:DB8F ( talk) 04:09, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
By the way, kabuki, especially of the time context cannot be confused with anything other than a play and in fact that is the connotation of the word. 2605:E000:1301:4462:3C91:3A45:8DC6:FC7A ( talk) 17:13, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
Have you read the WP article on Kabuki? They did not have cable, or television, or radio or film back then? 2605:E000:1301:4462:3C91:3A45:8DC6:FC7A ( talk) 17:51, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
Earlier efforts were made to reduce the size of the plot only to be met with reversions an cautions to bring those edits to the y=talk page. It seems only responsible for all parties involved to bring any subsequent reductions in plot size to the talk page so that a consensus can be reached. That is the WP way. Please provide WP with your reasonings as to why certain portions are to be amended so that we can understand what is the process involved. Again, that is the WP way. I am certain that you agree with this process? It seems to be used to hold all others accountable. Your comments are most heartfeltedly awaited during this process of consensus. 2605:E000:1301:4462:904E:DC75:3814:4202 ( talk) 18:06, 9 September 2018 (UTC) Editing due only to reduce word count is not really what the WP plot size guideline intends. There are portions that can b tightened and others eliminated. As OldJacabite seems to be a driving force in what is acceptable i would ask that he provide some explanation of his reasonings so that we can better understand what obstacles have been encountered in the past. 2605:E000:1301:4462:904E:DC75:3814:4202 ( talk) 18:09, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
I guess it's going in a wrong direction. First off, it should be written as a period war drama, but then we all know war movies are normally period pieces and are high on drama. It can be only war.
But then, let's not forget that it's actually an action movie with many battle sequences and it is based on no real war. I'm not saying a film should be exactly based on facts to qualify as a war movie, but here in this film, what we can call "war" happens only near the end. Before that, it's in the martial arts zone. It's an epic action drama as the official source also claims it to be one.
But if we have to sum it up all, I guess we can write it as an epic martial arts movie. Because even though MA is not used in every single sequence, it still forms the basis of the film as it's about a samurai. And samurai films are normally in the martial arts sub-category which further comes under action.
More sources for you to see for yourself (not saying we should cite these but just for your own reference):
https://www.warnerbros.com/last-samurai?fbclid=IwAR1TBrT6Pzjlcw0hkWeAIgz-1tb43XZXhqKX0g5wrnG4Du1NALREwlr1Xxg https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700003406/Last-Samurai-The.html http://www.cbn.com/entertainment/screen/mcclure_lastsamurai.aspx?mobile=false&u=1 https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheLastSamuraiFilm/about/ https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/301109/The-Last-Samurai https://screenrant.com/jack-reacher-2-sequel-director-tom-cruise/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/last-samurai-review-2003-movie-1153330 https://gy.hbomax.tv/movie/WBI083530/The-Last-Samurai https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-last-samurai https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/The-Last-Samurai/10965 https://www.inverse.com/article/15869-why-tom-cruise-s-the-last-samurai-is-totally-underrated https://www.radiotimes.com/film/fj5kbb/the-last-samurai/
And yes, don't bring your personal genre definitions in here. Wikipedia is for everyone so let's be true to facts and not personal opinions. ( 77Survivor ( talk) 10:02, 16 December 2018 (UTC))
There is also a Japanese film called "The Last Samurai" (Okami yo Rakujitsu o Kire), directed by Kenji Misumi and released in 1974. A DVD of it was released in the U. S. by Neptune Media, I believe in 2011. There should be at least a disclaimer about it, if not a link to an article. J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 20:37, 26 May 2019 (UTC)