Wrong Armor in the Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is a classic historical action film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Tom Cruise. It focuses on an American soldier who ends up in 19th century Japan and decides to fight alongside samurai warriors. The film received several Oscar nominations and was widely praised for its plot, visuals, and costumes too, but one of those costumes was just plain wrong.
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After Cruise’s character joins up with the local samurai, we see him wearing a set of samurai armor. The film is set in 1870, but the armor Cruise’s character wears is from the 1600s and definitely wouldn’t have been worth wearing at that time period. It seems like the costume department either decided that more modern samurai armor wasn’t eye-catching enough or just didn’t do their research.