Saigo Takamori - The Last Samurai Documentary
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truly an impressive man worthy of being remembered as one of the last of the samurai
I always knew in my heart, deep down that the last samurai could not have been Tom Cruise. Thank you for the confirmation!....
Agreed! Somehow Cruise's racial and cultural attributes just don't fit the bill! 😊
🤣 fact
I always thought he was too short to really be Japanese .
😂😂😂😂😂
Well, thinking about it, it actually is Ken Watanabe🤔
“Tell me how he died.” - Emperor Meiji
“I will tell you how he lived.” - Tom Cruise
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Awesome!
He is the last true Samurai
I have been waiting for anybody to cover him for so long!!!!
Very interesting and as always well done. With most of the documentaries i have a basic sense of most of the subject's actions throughout their life, but this was a real eye opener
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Beautifullly concluded.
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Nice video about last samurai in Japan tradition from excellent specific channel...too nice and enjoyable knowledge about this specific role of authority in Japanese islands thanks for sending
An Offer of Surrender.
Saigo Ignores Contender
As soon as I saw Saigo in the title, I expected the Swedish Pagans to be here, unlike the Spanish Inquisition
*THE DAWN OF DESTINY IS HERE*
Really interesting video! 👍😊
What a great warrior , should be more Hollywood movies to promote Japanese warriors ,
The Japanese have so many strong warriors
NHK made a TV series called Segodon "a reference to Saigo's nickname" which is a biopic of Saigo Kichinosuke/Takamori
Japanese battles are interesting because they are generally smaller in scope and have a higher composition of pro soldier vs pro soldier. As opposed to other countries where the bulk of the armies were farmers and serfs. Think it's makes for more drama.
Nobunaga was interesting because he used non samurai and armed them with guns
Saw his statue at Ueno but didn't know at that time how influential he was and even today in Japanese history.
His followers motto was Where ever Saigo.......I GO.....
I have just finished to read the book" A cross a Bridge of Dreams" from Lesly Downer. I' am so happy to know more about japanese history.
De Valera or Michael Collins would be a good profile
Yes, for sure.
What a fascinating person! Also I don't know what accent the narrator has but it sounds cool.
Pretty sure he’s English.
@@SleekMinister I have lived all over the north and currently live on a council estate in Rotherham. Just been around a wide range of people
Greek
Definitely Southern Alabama.
He should use that made up accent from the tv show Vikings.
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We must never forget who we are, or where we come from, and that our ancestors, although long gone, still have a right to be honored, revered and heard. As without their hard work, bravery, intelligence and sacrifice, we would not have the many comforts and privileges we enjoy today.
It's amazing how similar the story of Saigo Takamori is to our divided society of today
Today, our western world are torn between those who want to preserve the older ways values, and those that wants to tear it down in the name so-called equality.
Just like Japan during, and after the Meiji restoration.
Equality = progress ......
@@davidtapp3950 I think you misunderstand that I was being sarcastic here.
The feminists think that equality is progress. The rest of the world knows it for the disaster it is. All of feminism's tenets are merely disruptors which are destroying the societies in which it has entrenched itself.
@@davidtapp3950 My thoughts exactly!
move back to europe then
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excellent presentation..is there a follow-up leading to WW2?
More Japanese figures are in the pipeline.
Saigo Takamori will always be my idol, Blessed Be.
We all "stumble " in a role to one end or another.. hindsight is always a little distorted. Remember we are merely beings in a time and place under circumstance.
_Revere Heaven, love Man_ ... Like it!
I wonder if you could cover William Slim, in my opinion Britain's best commander in WW2.
I first got to know him when I went Ueno in Tokyo and saw his statue. He has a dog beside him and no idea about him until I researched more about him.
I've seen him before I've seen the statue at Ueno park. I want to be in Japan sooo bad for the Olympics but this Covid is ruining my life.
“Respect Heaven and love people”
Saigō Takamori
Wise ☺️
@@jennypoussin3866 indeed also I like to point out that more than just a quote it his motto
@@ethanramos4441 Didn't know that sincere thanks ☺️
@@jennypoussin3866 ah your welcome
7:18 😂 Perry just casually pulling up like "Where da hos at?"
How bare you. As a DESCENDANT of the BEPPU clan I'll take your life
The one samurai at 26:36 looks like a Japanese Robert Deniro, glaring, and saying with his eyes...EH...You talking to me..ARE YOOOOOU TALKING TO ME.
Banzai
@4:30 I never knew there was a town called Waifu in Japan
What??? YOU ARE BUUUUUUUULLSHITTING!!! I spotted that and I can't believe it. WTF
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 It takes being able to see to believe sometimes 😉
@@bb-eleven5785 what does it mean? I see a lot of nerdy geeky ppl especially the whyte ones who have yellow fever say it a lot??
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Are you referring to weebs?
Seems to me that someone loved both the movie Last of The Mohicans novel/movie and loved the history of Saigo Takamori, and then decided to combine the two, and ended up with The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise. And we are all happier for it! (So long as foreign young people realize that it is historical fiction and not a biography)
Enjoyed the video except for the voice/delivery. For anyone interested in the summer reading, try Shogun
Donald Keene's authorative and utterly brilliant book on the Emperor Meiji covers the incident of the policemen being sent to Kyushu. There is no evidence they were sent to assasinate Saigo; indeed, surely their appearance and purpose on Kyushu would have been covert if they were assassins.
Oh I remember this voice from somewhere else.
It’s still crazy to me that this whole event is literally just a little over 100 years ago
Technological and modernizational developments always overrun some classes of people and leave them behind. For example, in the United States today some poor as well as some elderly folks have been deprived of the opportunity to become computer literate. Perhaps Takamori saw the same thing happening in Japan.
It's the nature of time that the old ways must give in
Imperial Force defied, it's the last stand of the Samurai!
You got it wrong bud, it's
丨爪卩乇尺丨卂ㄥ 千ㄖ尺匚乇 ᗪ乇千丨乇ᗪ, facing 500 samurai
Surrounded and outnumbered, 60:1 the sword face the gun
Bushido dignified, 丨ㄒ＇丂 ㄒ卄乇 ㄥ卂丂ㄒ 丂ㄒ卂几ᗪ ㄖ千 ㄒ卄乇 丂卂爪ㄩ尺卂丨
Surrounded and outnumbered
They look thirsty my lord! Well, let's give them something to drink , to the cliffs!!!🍸 🤪
Did Tom Cruise justify the story ( The Last Samurai ) movie correctly --------
It's not accurate, but we really like the movie, the core message is spot on. Remember who we are and where we come from.
It's how they depict how Samurais in rebellions heroically fought to a noble tragedy
4:26 THERE IS A CITY CALLED “WAIFU”!?!?!?
Ask the map maker.
Can you do about Carl Mannerheim?
18:34 who was that black woman pictured with the imperial soldiers?
CURTANA
THE SWORD OF MERCY
Wait! It's not Tom Cruise???
Keep in perspective that in a feudal society the common man doesn't have many rights or opportunities. What the Europeans offered was trade and Christianity. Each of these were free to be chosen by the common Japanese, however, the ruling class of Japan were fearful of European influence on the Japanese and they would lose control, so they prohibited contact. The Europeans and Japanese nobility were both fighting for control of the Japanese people, and so neither were righteous.
Great men on both side. The Samurai Who fought for and against die old Order. Greatest ever the Samurai Who fought and died at Hiroshima. Like the Spartant at the termophyles. No one came back. May they Rest in Peace, like all Soldiers dying to forefill their oath in the eye of certain death.
I ment Shirojama
na i like tom cruise better !, thank you for a great video ! ancient japan should never be forgotten.
For a Samurai to be brave, he must have a bit of Black blood.”
- Japanese Proverb
saigo takamori later reincarnated as the sumo wrestler musashimaru
So the last Samurai was a 20 stone Sumo wrestler? Fantastic!
had to change it for the movie, otherwise Cruise would have looked like a toddler standing next to him
The music in the background. Who?
rebellious satsuma
who was the first?
I'm really confused. I just watched the Last Samurai and it was Tom Cruise!
everyone knows Tom Cruise was the last samurai
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Don't be silly. Everyone knows Tom Cruise is just an actor who played the roll of the last Samaria, who was an attractive Caucasian American military officer, of course.
Because Hollywood knows better than history that throughout history Caucasian Americans did all the best stuff, since long before there ever was a single Caucasian American.
In short, Caucasian Americans are the very best at everything that the single Orange American hasn't taken the slightest interest in.
You could say, (according to Hollywood, who, if you remember, knows best, Nazis, proud boys, and white supremacists of every color, {pink, off white, egg shell, pearl, and any shade of gray that isn't gray or black}), Caucasian Americans are the very best! The rest are, well, the rest...
But you were close. Tom Cruise is amongst the best of the modern white supremacists.., I mean Caucasian Americans, (oops, my bad).
@@robertglass3944 Do you like yellow suprematists more than white suprematists ?
@@muhammadibnmusaal-chorezmi7240, I like the purple ones.
@@robertglass3944 the last nigga on earth featuring Tom Hanks
Bushido honor and nobility has much in common with the chivalrous West
Wait wait wait it’s not Tom Crouise?
Segodon 🎌
Wait, it's not Tom Cruise?
Let's not forget the traditional samurai was total murderous authority over their pedants. Samurai could kill any non samurai for any perceived insult or transgression. Samurai made the European knight almost look like the Arthurian knights myth.
Honour and morals are completely subjective from culture to culture and over the vast timeline of history.
@@aussiemilitant4486 Doesn't make samurai any less vicious murderers. That excuse would pardon war crimes.
im kinda confuse at first he serve the emperor then he rebel ?
彼は天皇に反逆したのではなく、明治政府に反逆したのです。明治政府は武士たちよって樹立されましたが、次第に近代化政策によって武士たちの特権を奪うようになりました。
当時、武士たちにとって西郷は幕府を倒した英雄でありリーダーだったので、明治政府への不満は西郷に集まったのです。当初、西郷は反乱など起こさぬように彼らを説得していましたが、彼ら暴走を止めることができませんでした。
Sengoku period will show you that backstabbing is not uncommon as you would like to think.
Saigo Takamori was Right, Japan should have kept their Traditional ways, now look how fucked up the country is. Japan was NOT meant for modernization, as they already had a System that for them was working. Now after WW2, American still owns Japan as only the surrender agreement was signed, not the other agreement that the USA gave back Japan to Japan. Japan does run themselves as a Nation, but just like the Philippines, and parts of Europe America , BIG BROTHER has their thumb on them !
Yes, just imagine if they kept it more traditional. Such beauty. Now toyoko, just concrete.
Then they bastardized, the samurai code to murder and rape in WW2.
England lost to America but I'm pretty sure they have infiltrated the governing system. Looking at historical events the art of war applies ( can't beat them join them) taking over from the in side of
@@bradleyjackson7168 so much beauty in such a small place. Structures that are 100s of years if not 1000s still being used
For a society to have existed for over a 1000 years they were doing something right
Colt made all men equal .
But Tom Cruise was the last samurai.
4:30 The city of Waifu. Haaaaahaaa.
I always get annoyed with Tim Cruise comments on this. He was a device for the audience to witness the Last Samurai (plural). There's a reason Japanese people love that movie and don't err on the side of being offended.
If Japan and Meiji actually allow the traditional Samurai class continued to deal with Japanese military and defences, we might never have The pacific war….
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The Samurai were so inept that the Japanese would have gotten the Opium Wars treatment if not for the Meiji reforms
Leave it to the US Government to create it's own problem. If Admiral Perry didn't sent his fleet to Japan then the Shogunate would have lasted for much much longer and Japan would have remained as a feudal nation. Japan wouldn't have been nowhere as strong as they did in WW2 to challenge us.
He keeps adressing him as 'Saigo'. The man's name is Takamori. Saigo is the family name, quite odd for a history channel not to know this 🤔
What makes you think they didn't know this? It's not unusual to refer to historical figures by their last names. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Churchill, Gandhi, Lincoln, etc etc
Saigo Takamori was known since birth as Saigo Kichinosuke, but he'd only changed his name to Takamori after the Boshin War.
Tom Cruise was the only Last Samurai
西郷隆盛の顔がいまだに分からないからなあ。写真が残っていない。ほんと謎の人物だよ。
He was overweight so it must be fairly accurate.
waifu or wifefu (@12:21 you can see it for 6 seconds next to yamaga and kumamoto)
This is disappointing. I thought the last samurai had blue eyes, blond hair and practiced Scientology
No comment.
''This is disappointing''
He looks nothing like Ben Watanabe.
The Emperor was a puppet of the filthy satsuma.
i thought tom cruise was the last samurai
But wait isn't Tom Cruise the real last Samurai
I'm glad there are no more Samurais.
Last samurai is tom.cruise in my.opinion
I would have appreciated a less ‘harsh’ voice!
the content is great, but the narrator's voice/tone is annoying, sorry...
Saigo doesn’t look like a Japanese person he looks like a western man
So I'm a DESCENDANT of (BEPPU SHUNSUKE). I look like a native American
No this cant be Tom Cruise is the last samurai
Narrators voice is totally off putting
Such an interesting topic. However I think the cheap editing really ruined the pleasure of watching this. Haphazzerd images zooming in and out in stead of explaining what it is and not sure if they are really relevant to the story. This is cheap work and I did not like it even thought the topic greatly interests me.
Saigo Takamori wasn't the last Samurai!!! Tom Cruise was!!
Who cares honestly
Bullshit. We all know Tom Cruise was the last samurai.
Ken Watanabe you mean.
wtf is up with the narration...
i regretted tuning in. The voice over is a muddafawwwking turn off. Like, stop it!!!!!!!
Lasted about a minute before I couldn't stand this narrator voice
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@@PeopleProfiles Thanks