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Drama, Action, War 154 min R
Rotten Tomatoes65%Metacritic55IMDb
In the face of an enemy, in the heart of one man, lies the soul of a warrior.
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
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There is probably no director more obsessed with the complexity of patriotism — an unusual subject to plumb in mainstream films — than Edward Zwick, who is driven to question the imperatives of an America that his protagonists both love and detest. His movie falls squarely into the realm of the previous Zwick bedevi…
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