A must see film

Rating: 9/10 (21 February 2006)

This film is unarguable the greatest war movie in the early 21st century, as every events and actions that is occur in the film truly express the audience about the Japanese traditional life as it is back then. The scenes is well organize and carefully design. Specially the ending when the samurai face the imperial army of japan. The film maker really owe the martial art of war trainers they hired "they really did a great job". Like how we can see in the final battle, every single warrior is moving and show the real emotion in their face, not just the main character like other war movie. Everything is taken care so careful on almost every details that made the movie so perfect (and also good job on the sound affect, they successfully made an expression that greatly support the acting). Above all our effort, we cant run away from the fact that we are human and human make mistake no matter how hard they try to evade. The mistake is soo little, but really annoying if you notice. That American captain and the samurai's leader, is surely a man of war and a both a tactical genius. But what happened in the final battle really do not show their skills as a master of war, but more about a kid with no tactical strategy. As a Samurai, they know they can only kill their enemy as far as their katana can reach. Then why fighting in an open ground ? can't it just like the 1st battle in the wood? that way they have more chance to win. In my opinion,-although it is not precisely told in the film-, the samurai tried to separate the imperial army from their general, as they think the samurai is retreating, but they could at least form a loose formation that way they could reduce their casualty, not just stand in a group and wait to be hit by a howitzer. Overall, this movie is beyond extraordinary. I give 9 stars, 1 is flying to hell as the the last little mistake.