I ended up going to this elderly man’s house which was fairly big and had a nice ocean view because he’s a rich mf. His wife said she was making sushi but she ended up ordering a Benihana alternative which made my gf sad because the only reason we went to their place was because she wanted sushi. Oh well.
I’m still here and the guy just put on Malhação which is some shitty novela from the 90s and my gf looks like she might cry. I think this old man never had any kids so he’s trying to bond with me and throughout the movie he kept looking over for approval at his favorite scenes. He must love this disgusting filth film because he recites the lines really well and it felt like a dual audio situation where Tom cruise and old man were speaking the same lines. I wanted to jump into the ocean and drown.
Such a bad movie I only like Tom cruise in mission impossible 1 and 3 and the rest suck.
Last samurai is about whitey Vietnam vet who tries to train some samurai soldiers how to fight and he ends up dying of disentary at the end of the movie. I think my fate will be the same after eating the Benihana because I don’t feel too good.
We’re still at his house and he want to show me his aged soy sauce collection.
I don't think it's that bad. Apparently this movie is looked on kind of fondly in Japan, despite the Hollywood-style historical inaccuracy.
Fun fact: Ken Watanabe's character is based on a historical figure, Saigo Takamori, who led a rebellion against the Meiji government in protest of the dissolution of the Samurai caste. In contrast to the movie, every contemporary depiction and account of Takamori's rebellion makes it clear that his army used modern weapons, and Takamori himself wore a French military uniform. So rather than trying to protect an endangered sacred culture or whatever, he was leading a reactionary insurrection against a land reform program.
I want to watch this movie so bad. There's a certain romantic futility to the fuedal landlord class fighting against the rise of industrial capital, but in my ideal movie I would make it clear that everybody involved sucks by centering a former peasant who is abused by the samurai as a young man and then has to get a job in a factory which is somehow worse and then gets drafted into the army and just has a miserable time throughout the entire thing.
It's been ages since I saw this, but I love Ken Watanabe so I can't hate it too much. The politics and Tom Cruise character (because dumb Amerikkkans won't watch movie about Japan without whitey) is obviously cringe.
a lot of the social issue kinda problems with american media don't impact foreign audiences so they aren't harmed the way minoritized people are over here.