{"id":5361,"date":"2002-10-15T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-15T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/15\/tom-cruise-the-last-samurai\/"},"modified":"2002-10-15T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-15T14:15:00","slug":"tom-cruise-the-last-samurai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tom-cruise-the-last-samurai\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise the Last Samurai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filming on Tom Cruise&#8217;s latest film began in Japan last week. The Last Samurai is a historical epic action film about a Civil War veteran (Cruise) who moves to Japan to train the emperor&#8217;s troops in the use of firearms. Cruise&#8217;s character becomes entangled between the emperor&#8217;s new army and the few remaining traditional samurai warriors. &#8220;&#8230;This project feels like a blend inspired by equal parts Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (except Japanese instead of Chinese) and Dances with Wolves; the white man&#8217;s lament about the death of the cultures his technology and cash-driven expansion (or in Japan&#8217;s case, influence) lays to waste.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. expects The Last Samurai, scheduled for release on December 12, 2003, to be one of its five major releases of next year, along with The Matrix 2 &amp; 3, Terminator 3, and Looney Tunes: Back in Action.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/shop?d=hp&#038;cf=prev&#038;id=1808417794&#038;intl=us\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Movies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saiyanz-rage.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saiyanz Rage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filming on Tom Cruise&#8217;s latest film began in Japan last week. The Last Samurai is a historical epic action film about a Civil War veteran (Cruise) who moves to Japan to train the emperor&#8217;s troops in the use of firearms. Cruise&#8217;s character becomes entangled between the emperor&#8217;s new army and the few remaining traditional samurai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}