The Last Samurai
 

Is the movie out in your country yet? it's only coming out on 22 Jan for me (damneth).It looks absolutely fantastic, though.

It's been out for some time.

I didn't like Dances With Wolves as much as everyone else did, so I'm apprehensive to see the sequel.

Saw it, I loved it. I enjoyed it much more the return of the king. It's a really good movie, probably will go see it again(which is rare for me to do)

What's the stroy like? Spoil me.

Basically, a Civil War soldier gets hired by the Japs to train the Japanese soldiers in using guns and the 'modern' weapons.

Japan, in the movie and I guess at the time, is in a sort of 'power' struggle, between the old-timers (samurai) and the ones who wish to become a major power by using all the modern world has to offer.

The samurai, led by...led by...a guy with a really long Japanese name...are fighting this integration of modernistic things, since they believe it will inevitably corrupt Japan.

So, Mr. America goes to Japan, and starts training the Japs, only to find out that they have about as much gun abilities as a retarded fish. (In one part, when they all line up for target practice, all 500 of them miss...funny stuff...), so he knows his job wll be hard.

So then Mr. America's friend, this a-hole who was apparently his commanding officer in the Civil War, wants all the Japs to fight the samurai, even though their abilities have only, thusfar, been enough to combat the hay stacks behind the targets they always miss.

But the a-hole presses on, and so the untrained are sent out to fighth the samurai, where they lose horribly, although the samurai do make one helluva entrance.

Anyways, Mr. America, his Jap troops around him slaughtered, finds himself fending off four samurai, even though he has been stabbed in the leg and an arm.

The leader of the samurai sees this, and decides to let him live, although some a-hole samurai decides to try and kill him anyway, but Mr. America blocks his attack, then kills him...karma...

So Mr. America gets carted away to the samurai village, where he bunks up with the wife of the a-hole samurai he killed.

The rest of the movie is Mr. America seeing that the samurai are actually pretty nice guys, and he takes up their way of swordfighting, and then learns Japanese (some more funny scenes concerning that), and then becomes good ol' pals with the samurai leader, and the rest you have to see.

And there are Ninjas. And the a-hole commanding officer totally gets a sword through the chest, but I've said too much.

On a side note, what was Dances With Wolves about...it sounds familiar, but I've never seen it.

Sould of put a spoiler warning in front of the post for people who didn't want to read it. Not me, I don't care. I talking for other people who might care.

The spoilers aren't immediately obvious, though I see where you're going. Damn, I want to see t3h ninjas.

I didn't put any spoliers in there...nothing big, just that both a-holes die, and theres ninjas (kick ass Ninjas)

Sounds like it's set in the Meiji era. What do the ninjas do? I take it they aren't like Ninja Scroll cannonfodder ninjas, right?