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The Last Samurai: Original Motion Picture Score was released on November 25, 2003, by Warner Sunset Records. [10] All music on the soundtrack was composed, arranged, and produced by Hans Zimmer , performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony , and conducted by Blake Neely . [ 11 ]
Set in the end of Edo period in Kyoto.Sugi, a young samurai found a new father in the person of Ikemoto from whom he learned the art of the sword ().Ikemoto, a spy in the pay of the Tokugawa shogun and sensing the near end of the samurai world, implores Sugi to stay away from the political struggles and violent conflicts.
Born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, on July 9, 1990, Ikematsu landed his first film role in the blockbuster hit The Last Samurai at the age of 13. [1] He has since gone on to star in four feature-length films in Japan. [1] Ikematsu graduated from Noma Junior High School in Minami-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka in March 2006. [1]
Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese actor, best known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Archery was seen as a good way for instilling the necessary principles for a samurai warrior. Zen became a major element in both foot and mounted archery as it also became popular among the samurai in every aspect of their life during the Kamakura period. Yabusame as a martial art helped a samurai learn concentration, discipline, and refinement.
Masato Harada (原田 眞人, Harada Masato, born July 3, 1949) is a Japanese film director, film critic, and occasional actor; he is best known to foreign audiences as Omura in The Last Samurai and as Mr Mita in Fearless.
The Last Samurai (Original Motion Picture Score) is the soundtrack to the 2003 film The Last Samurai directed by Edward Zwick and starring Tom Cruise.The film's original score is composed and produced by Hans Zimmer and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony under the supervision of conductor and orchestrator Blake Neely.
The Last Samurai (2000) is the first novel by American writer Helen DeWitt. It follows a single mother and her young son, a child prodigy, who embarks on a quest to find his father. Despite selling well and garnering critical acclaim on publication, it was out of print for almost a decade; when reissued in 2016, it received renewed praise and ...