Quotes of THE LAST SAMURAI:

Taka tells Algren that Higen is angry,
not because he killed the boy's father,
but that he may be killed in the upcoming fight..

Jules Brunet

Emile Bertin

Former US Army Captain Nathan Algren, a bitter alcoholic
traumatized by the atrocities
he committed during the American Indian Wars,
is approached by his former commanding officer
Colonel Bagley to train the newly formed Imperial
Japanese Army for Japanese businessman Omura,
who intends to use the army to suppress a
samurai-headed rebellion against Japan's new Emperor.
Despite his hatred of Bagley for his role in the Indian Wars,
an impoverished Algren takes the job
for the money, and is accompanied to Japan
by his old friend Sergeant Zebulon Gant.
Upon arriving, Algren meets Simon Graham,
a British translator knowledgeable about the Samurai.
Algren finds the Imperial soldiers are poorly trained;
rather than finding an eager army, he finds
conscripted peasants that have no knowledge of firearms.
During training, Algren is informed that
the samurai are attacking one of Omura's railroads;
Omura sends the army there, despite Algren’s protests
that they are not ready. The battle is a disaster;
the conscripts panic, and Gant is killed in the battle.
Algren kills at least eight samurai before he is surrounded;
expecting to die, he is surprised when
samurai leader Katsumoto decides to spare him.
Algren is taken to Katsumoto's village to live among his family