i like japanese movie and i like movie about samurai and for some reason after i saw the ad i buy a ticket and go to the cinema to watch it . i expect something like the shogun with it holliwoodish but still interesting entertain exploration of japanese culture . but what i saw be so cheesy that walk out of the theatre i felt like i start hat tom cruise for lurk me into the 2 hour popcorn for the brain show . i always expect tom cruise to finally die and but he never do . instead he go on chop the samurai ( who and supposedly dedicate all their life to the sword fight art ) right and leave . the scene where he train with the master of sword remind me all those hundred of cheesy rambo kickboxer movie where the white american kick the ass of their asian adversary in the field of the martial art after have train those art for some 10 minute . the movie be quite expensive and have a pretense of be a historical drama and but the plot and the message of it be just way too cheesy . hollywood clichés be ooze from every scene . the bad part be the end where tom cruise ( an amercian officer who come to teach japanese the modern western war technique and subsequently undergo a transformation embrace the old way of noble fight with the katana sword ) together with his noble friend dash in their last suicidal charge with the naked sword right onto the machine gun of emperor army and . what i see represent all japanese be dead and tom cruise be still hang on and all wound of course and but alive and with this tremendously heroic face he try to stand up and alone among the corps of all his friend . here the director apparently want u to cry and sympathize with our hero and but all i felt be a creepy feeling that one might feel when observe something so utterly false and cheap cheesy that you want to shudder . so my verdict be represent it be bad and very bad . even for tom cruise .