Highly Historically Innacurate and Exceedingly Gory, but Good Nonetheless.

I watched The Last Samurai on Wednesday night, and I have come to three conclusions which (thanks to the power of the intarnets) I can now share with the world:

1. Tom Cruise, like Keith Richards, cannot be killed by conventional means. Slice him, dice him, fire 200 rounds of a machine gun at him, and he still survives to overact another day.

2. Even if it's only a brief shot, it's still exciting to recognize a location (in this case, Suizenji Park in Kumamoto) in a film.

3. I know more Japanese than I thought, since despite not having any subtitles for the Japanese portions of the film (which makes sense, seeing as how this is a movie rented from a Japanese video store) I still understood some of what was being said. Admiteddly, body language, tone and gesture helped too, but still, it was a nice ego boost.