• xavier666@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I might be terribly incorrect.

      But i remember that Tom Cruise’s character switches sides in the movie after spending time with the Samurai (He was captured by them). He trains under them and becomes a Samurai. In the end, they fight against the (British?) and lose due to a gattling gun. All the Samurai die except for Tom’s character. So symbolically, Tom is the Last Samurai.

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          1 year ago

          He also does not “become a samurai”

          Correct. That’s why I said symbolically.

          but you never see the character on screen again

          I maybe incorrect but towards the end of the movie, the Emperor asks how Katsumoto died, to which Tom Cruise replies “I’ll tell you how he lived”. So he was alive?