Tonight we headed over to join the Fourth East Mafia to watch Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai (2003). It was pretty good, I enjoyed seeing the battles, and the graceful action shots. A bit gory, and some of it campy, but still some pretty seat-gripping moments.

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