• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    27 days ago

    It is implied that Tom Cruise dies at the end. I think the confusion comes from a voice over, but you never see the character on screen again.

    He also does not “become a samurai”. He fights alongside them, but at no point do they call him a samurai.

    Edit: looks like that link is wrong. He doesn’t die at the end. I guess memory is a fickle beast.

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      27 days ago

      He also does not “become a samurai”

      Correct. That’s why I said symbolically.

      but you never see the character on screen again

      I maybe incorrect but towards the end of the movie, the Emperor asks how Katsumoto died, to which Tom Cruise replies “I’ll tell you how he lived”. So he was alive?