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Who Was the Last Samurai? — The Tale of Saigō Takamori
The 2003 movie The Last Samurai, in which Tom Cruise plays an American veteran who gets caught up in a samurai rebellion against the Japanese Meiji government, cast an interesting and entertaining light on a part of history not often portrayed in American film.
