I couldn't find movies, so I thought history would be the next best choice.
2007-01-29 07:22:55 · 12 answers · asked by Chase 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No matter what, never rely on a movie to get correct historical facts, because movies are for entertainment purposes, so they are not exactly accurate. Nevertheless, "The Last Samurai" is a great movie, altough I think it is just a fictitious tale that is loosely based on historical facts.
2007-01-29 07:27:56 · answer #1 · answered by Specter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Totally Hollywood. I personally do not believe that the last Samurai was a white guy from the Northeast. Read the book Samurai. It will teach you a lot about the samurai.
2007-01-29 15:27:43 · answer #2 · answered by brotherman2112 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's based around events that led to the end of the Samurai but unfortunately while telling the tale it became too Hollywood(Bastardized false rendition...)It made heroes of those that weren't heroes.
In fact it was just a commercial for Tom Cruise....
2007-01-29 15:31:47 · answer #3 · answered by Eyota Xin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once had to read the biography of the last Samurai. What you saw was 100% pure, unadulterated Hollywood. And if I were at my office right now, I'd quote the title of the booke, etc...
2007-01-29 15:34:48 · answer #4 · answered by Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's pure Hollywood.
If the Japanese government was looking for someone to train their troops, they would go to Europe and hire Prussian or French or British military officers. The US barely even had a professional military in the 1880s
2007-01-29 15:33:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hollywood
read , living the marshal artiest way.
I grew up in a marshal arts family, but became a dancer
My parents began some 40 yes ago.
the school is a nonprofit almost free school .
My 10 yr old son now belongs, it is a truly traditional school run in a true traditional form all teachers are volunteers too and are teaching not as a job, but a way of life !
2007-01-29 15:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by danceteacher5555 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hollywood. Katsumoto is based off of one of the last samurai, Saigo Takamori, however.
2007-01-29 16:18:04 · answer #7 · answered by The Tourist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hollywood, to be sure. Even if it has some basis in a factual event, you can be sure that Hollywood completely bastardized it and made it their own.
2007-01-29 15:26:14 · answer #8 · answered by willow oak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Both
2007-01-29 15:25:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
purely hollywood.
2007-01-29 15:25:01 · answer #10 · answered by mattlock0720 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋