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Hugh Hart interviews Ken Watanabe concerning his experience acting in The Last Samurai.SAMURAI GUY Famous in Japan Ken Watanabe is charging into Hollywood armed with charm and grit Samurai Tom Cruise gets top billing in quotThe Last Samuraiquot of course but its Ken Watanabe in the title role who commands the opening scene of the $100 million historical epic A veteran of Japanese language films and television Watanabe 44 never appeared in an American movie before quotThe Last Samuraiquot and hes making one heck of an entrance With Cruise on board to guarantee a solid box office quotSamuraiquot director Ed Zwick decided early on to cast Japanese actors in key roles then spent a year trying to find the right Katsumoto Zwick Herskovitz and co writer John Logan quotGladiatorquot based Watanabes character on Saigo Takamori an actual samurai warrior who led a rebellion of tradition minded followers in 1877 to protest Japans rapid modernization at the hands of American and European advisers The Bushido code of conduct explored in quotThe Last Samuraiquot may be as much of
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