As stated above, this film has cast a white man to tell the story of the Japanese Samurai in Warrior Japan. This story could have been told trough the perspective of the traditional samurai using a Japanese actor and would have been just as strong. There are several aspects of the film I do like and that is the depiction of what it might have been like in Japan during the rule of the shoguns (even though there are many historic inaccuracies, as pointed out below). The film also does a good job of contrasting the western vs. eastern view if what life is all about and what society should value. I feel that students would respond to the beauty of the setting and the focus on the concept of honor. I foresee using this film as an avenue to teach critical media literacy and why we should not rely on Hollywood to teach us history.
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