The Last Samurai — Index

The wiki for Edward Zwick's The Last Samurai (2003). Hub: The Last Samurai (2003).

Plot

• Plot Structure (The Last Samurai) — the film mapped through the Two Approaches framework

Cast

• (to be added)

Production

• (to be added)

Themes

• Befuddled by the Other — the trope of a protagonist encountering a foreign culture's value, befuddling over it, and adopting it (with comparisons to Dances with Wolves, Lawrence of Arabia, The Karate Kid, Witness, Avatar, Local Hero)

Analysis

• Plot Structure (The Last Samurai) — Two Approaches structural map
• Backbeats (The Last Samurai) — the film in numbered beats
• The Shiroyama Cease-Fire Climax (The Last Samurai) — the strict-mission-test climax page: the artillery captain's cease-fire and the Imperial line bowing at b41a