"Get down!" "Let's go." "I'll take you home." "Jolly good." "We must resist the Western powers by becoming powerful ourselves." "Our army, our economy, must be strong." "Minister, you honor us." "It is my honor to rejoin this council." "Perhaps you are unaware of the law against wearing swords?" "I read every law carefully." "Yet you bring weapons into this chamber?" "This chamber was protected by my sword when..." "We need no protection." "We are a nation of laws." "We are a nation of whores, selling ourselves..." "If we are whores, the Samurai made us this way." "I have not seen the Omura family giving gold to the masses." "Minister Katsumoto, it is with great regret but I must ask you to remove your sword." "This sword serves the Emperor." "Only he can command me to remove it." "The Emperor's voice is too pure to be heard in this council." "Then, I must refuse to give up my sword." "Then regretfully, my guards will accompany you to your home in Tokyo." "There you will await our summons." "I heard you were leaving." "Omura offers you my job, and you run away." "I suppose I should thank you." "$500 a month, including back pay for time spent in captivity." "Enough to climb back inside a bottle for the rest of your life." "You're welcome." "Well, it is pretty much over." "Katsumoto's under arrest." "Omura won't let him last the night." "With him dead, we should have little trouble handling the rebellion even without you." "Especially without you." "Just tell me one thing." "What is it about your own people that you hate so much?" "Save us the trouble..." "The Samurai are finished!" "Stop!" "Don't come any closer!" "Don't stop." "Whatever you do, don't stop." "Minister Omura has commanded us to photograph the traitor..." "Stop!" "Somebody!" "Bring that equipment here now!" "Lmmediately!" "You stop!" "You insolent, useless son of a peasant dog!" "How dare you show your sword in his presence!" "Do you know who this is?" "This is the President of the United States of America!" "He is here to lead our armies in victorious battle against the rebels!" "It's not my responsibility..." "Now get over there and help those men with their equipment!" "Carry the equipment." " President of the United States?" " Sorry." "I think I'm going to be sick." "How's your poem coming?" "The end is proving difficult." "This is Mr. Simon Graham." "He'd like very much to take your photograph." "I thought you returned to America." "I decided to stay." "See if I could convince you to escape." "How do you plan to do that?" "Mr. Graham, perhaps you would care to take pictures of my village." "I would be greatly honored." "My Lord, no!" "Nobutada!" "Father, let me stay." "It is my time." "My Lord we must go." "The Emperor could not hear my words." "His army will come." "It is the end." "For 900 years, my ancestors have protected our people." "Now I have failed them." "So you will take your own life in shame?" "Shame for a life of service?" "Discipline?" "Compassion?" "The way of the Samurai is not necessary anymore." "Necessary?" "What could be more necessary?" "I will die by the sword." "My own or my enemy's." "Then let it be your enemy's." "Together, we will make the Emperor hear you." "He was a good man." "Will you fight the white men, too?" "If they come here, yes." "Why?" "Because they come to destroy what I have come to love." "The way of Samurai is difficult for children." "He misses his father." "And he is angry because I am the cause of that." "No." "He is angry because he fears you will die as well." "My father taught me it is glorious to die in battle." "That is what he believed." "I would be afraid to die in battle." "So would I." "But you have been in many battles." "And I was always afraid." "I don't want you to go." "Algren." "They are coming." "I'd say two full regiments." "They'll come in waves of a thousand." "And they have the howitzers." "It makes no difference." "They will come, and we will make our stand." " How many men will we have?" " Maybe 500." "Like General Custer, huh?" "There was once a battle at a place called Thermopylae." "Three hundred brave Greeks held off a Persian army of a million men." "A million." "You understand this number?" "I understand this number." "For two days the Greeks made them pay so dearly the Persian army lost all taste for battle and were defeated soon after." " What do you have in mind?" " Take away the advantage of their guns." "They're overconfident." "We'll use that." "Lure them close." "Close enough for a sword." "You believe a man can change his destiny?" "I think a man does what he can until his destiny is revealed to him." "May 25th, 1877." "This will be the last entry in this journal." "I've tried to give a true accounting of what I have seen, what I have done." "I do not presume to understand the course of my life." "I know I am grateful to have partaken of all this  even if for a moment." "Algren-san, will you come with me?" "If you wear this armor, it will honor us." "You will need this." "What does it say?" ""I belong to the warrior in whom the old ways have joined the new."" "Good God." "Sir, the lmperial Army of Japan demands your surrender." "If you lay down your arms, you will not be harmed." "This is not possible, as Mr. Omura knows." "Captain Algren." "We will show you no quarter." "You ride against us, and you are the same as them." "I'll look for you on the field." "Captain Algren." "Mr. Graham." "Perhaps you can use these for your book." "Yes, I will." "Captain." "Godspeed." "Mr. Graham." "Well they won't surrender." "Are we ready?" "Get into your positions!" "Commence firing!" " They're covering their retreat." " You see?" "Even the mighty Samurai cannot stand up to the howitzers." " Signal the attack." " I advise sending in skirmishers first." "Nonsense!" "Full attack!" "They're coming." "Wait for the volley." "Second volley." " What on earth?" " What is happening?" " The attack has been stopped." " Send in the rest of the regiment." "What happened to the warriors at Thermopylae?" "Dead to the last man." "Algren-san!" "Son of a bitch thinks he can win." "They'll bring two more regiments up here soon." "We won't be able to stop them again." "You do not have to die here." "I should have died so many times before." "Now, you live again." "Yes." "It was not your time." "It's not over." "What is this?" "Cannon, prepare to fire!" "Prepare to fire!" " This is madness." "He's going to attack?" " Yes." "He's defeated!" "He must accept his shame!" "Kill him." "All of them." "Now!" "My horse!" "Fire!" "Ready!" "Aim!" "Fire!" "Fire at will!" "Bring up the new guns!" "Prepare the new guns!" "Fire!" "Backward!" "Quickly!" "Quickly!" "Fire!" "Stop firing!" "Idiots, keep on firing!" "Stop firing!" "Stop!" "No." "Shoot!" "Kill Katsumoto!" "Kill the American!" "You have your honor again." "Let me die with mine." "Help me up." "Are you ready?" "I will miss our conversations." "Perfect." "They are all perfect." "On behalf of the United States of America the signing of this treaty will usher in an era of unprecedented prosperity and cooperation between our two great nations." "On behalf of the Emperor we are pleased to have successfully concluded this negotiation." "He is here?" "Highness, if we could just conclude the matter at hand..." "This is Katsumoto's sword." "He would have wanted you to have it that the strength of the Samurai be with you always." "Enlightened One, we all weep for Katsumoto, but..." "He hoped with his last breath that you would remember the ancestors who held this sword and what they died for." "Your Highness..." "You were with him at the end?" "Emperor, this man fought against you!" "Your Highness if you believe me to be your enemy, command me and I will gladly take my life." "I have dreamed of a unified Japan of a country strong and independent and modern." "And now we have railroads and cannon, Western clothing." "But we cannot forget who we are or where we come from." "Ambassador Swanbeck I have concluded that your treaty is not in the best interest of my people." " Sir, if I may..." " So sorry but you may not." "This is an outrage!" "Enlightened One, we should discuss this..." "Omura you have done quite enough." "Everything I have done, I have done for my country." "Then you will not mind when I seize your family's assets and present them as my gift to the people." "You disgrace me." "If your shame is too unbearable I offer you this sword." "Tell me how he died." "I will tell you how he lived." "And so the days of the Samurai had ended." "Nations, like men, it is sometimes said, have their own destiny." "As for the American captain  no one knows what became of him." "Some say that he died of his wounds  others, that he returned to his own country." "But I like to think  he may have at last found some small measure of peace  that we all seek  and few of us ever find." "Subtitles by SDI Media Group" "[ENGLISH]"