The Last Samurai - Movie Review Example

He later went on to join the radical martial army. From here, he preached that the Japanese should take to the Samurai tradition. He practiced sword fighting and martial arts and the group swore to protect the 'Emperor'.3On that fateful day in 1970 before Mishima committed hara-kiri or ritual suicide, he stood in public view and delivered a speech on the need to protect Japanese traditions. Mishima was the one who brought this devotion to tradition before the whole world because he was a very well-known figure.

But what he lived and died for might not be seen as very relevant to contemporary Japanese m especially the young. Japan still remains true to tradition overall but is faces the inevitable globalization and therefore its concerns are primarily economic. The emperor still remains a loved symbol but the Japanese are too bothered coping with rising, inflation, recessionary figures, and concerns about competitiveness to ever brood .4The more philosophical concerns are probably discussed by the Japanese as much as in any other country and m, in the final analysis, there is only so much we can learn about a country's traditions.