Great movie for the Japanese side

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2019)

Saw this movie multiple times since 2003, best watched on the big screen.
If you ignore the american man who is a rifleman and comes to japan with some light sword training and kills extremely highly trained samurais who has been at war for 1000 years and then beds the wife of the one he killed while raising his kids and somehow survives everything, this movie is great.
Ken Watanabe did an amazing performance, one of his best and so did all the Japanese samurais, they all feel authentic, the scenery of japan is beautiful and the story is really emotional, the score sticks with you for days, you can really see the side of traditional japan selling out to modernism and you really root for the samurais in the end but thats the way life goes, adapt and survive.