^
+ Follow LAST SAMURAI Tag
Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1024051
                    [Title] => Swordsmith slashes his way to fame
                    [Summary] => 

Would you like to have a sword like the one Tom Cruise used in “The Last Samurai?” What about the weapons of Russell Crowe in “Gladiator,” or Mel Gibson in “Braveheart,” or the ones from the “Beast Master” television series or the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy?

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => The Good News [SectionUrl] => the-good-news [URL] => http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5577/3ctq.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 931459 [Title] => Film review: Oblivion twists, tricks & Tom [Summary] =>

Watching Tom Cruise engaged in a fight scene with a challenger that is obviously also himself can make one crack a joke about the pricey presence of the actor. That somehow it was decided none was worthy enough to share the pivotal screen fight with him on the particular scene.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1795912 [AuthorName] => Yugel Losorata [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 812389 [Title] => Massacre [Summary] =>

May eksena sa paborito kong pelikula – the Last Samurai na pinagbidahan nina Tom Cruise at Ken Watanabe – kung saan sumusugod ang nalalabing mga marangal na Samurai ng Japan, tangan lamang ang tradisyonal na armas tulad ng katana sword at bows & arrows, laban sa bagong military na gamit ang bagong imbento na gatling gun o machine gun.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135410 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805107 [AuthorName] => Ernesto P. Maceda Jr. [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 493380 [Title] => Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu h'quarter buksan ugma [Summary] =>

Pormal nga buksan ugma ang national headquarters kun Honbu sa Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu Rengokai-Kogyokan Dojo diha sa Meadowland subdivision sa barangay Pakigne sa lungsod sa Minglanilla, Cebu.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804726 [AuthorName] => Edwin Ian Melecio [SectionName] => Banat Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317819 [Title] => KEN WATANABE: ‘Sexy? No, I’m not. I’m just normal.’ [Summary] => The Chairman in the Steven Spielberg production of Memoirs of a Geisha talks about acting, cooking, working in Hollywood but, please, not about being sexy (even if People mag chose him as One of the Sexy Men Alive)

Do you think you’re sexy?


"I don’t think so."

Are you married?


"Why not?"

How would you describe yourself?


"Normal."
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 316603 [Title] => Memoirs of a Geisha: The epic romance comes to the big screen [Summary] => Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall ("Chicago") and producer Steven Spielberg, along with an acclaimed international cast led by Zhang Ziyi ("Hero"), Michelle Yeoh ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), Ken Watanabe ("The Last Samurai") and Gong Li ("2046") bring Arthur Golden's mesmerizing novel to the screen, in Columbia Pictures' "Memoirs of a Geisha."

The sweeping epic romance begins in 1929, near the end of the geishas' golden era. Told as a fable from a disappearing world, the film is set in a fictional hanamachi or geisha district.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 311008 [Title] => Politicians: The Pinoy version of the Samurai! [Summary] => Dec. 7 will always be remembered in the United States of America as a "Day of Infamy" when Japan engineered the most daring undeclared attack under the command of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on the American naval base in Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian islands, which ushered in World War II. In the Philippines, thanks to the international dateline, we commemorate that day on Dec. 8. We, too, had our share of Japanese aggression when Japanese zeros bombed the Cavite naval base.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 262484 [Title] => Adventure Cruise [Summary] => In the movie Interview With The Vampire, two of the most popular and sexiest actors – international superstar Tom Cruise, and A-list hunk Brad Pitt – figured in a scene where Cruise sucked the blood of Pitt. Ten years later, the two over-40 actors still ooze with sex appeal. Their movies showcase their well-toned bodies and supreme power, Pitt in the mega-hit Troy and Cruise in Last Samurai and the current Collateral.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136161 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804907 [AuthorName] => Mylene Mendoza-Dayrit [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 237842 [Title] => Mona Lisa frown [Summary] => Bohemian California-native art history professor Katherine Watson gets a job at a prestigious and conservative 1953 women’s college, her liberal West Coast values clashing with the school’s conservative East Coast principles. The moment I saw Mona Lisa Smile’s trailer, this premise presented to me, I knew I’d love the film. Plus, it starred a beret-donning Julia Roberts and an all-female cast of Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Marcia Gay Harden. [DatePublished] => 2004-02-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133164 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1447883 [AuthorName] => Lanz Leviste [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 236525 [Title] => Leadership, ‘The Last Samurai’ and the Bushido code [Summary] => What lessons on leadership, character and business success can we learn from Asian civilization, especially its ethics and philosophies? What old-fashioned tenets and wisdom should we relearn from the mystical Orient that the modern-day Ivy League MBA courses and countless Western management books like The One-Minute Manager cannot impart to us?

One of the most beautiful and inspiring new films from Hollywood is The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise, directed by Edward Zwick from a screenplay by John Logan, Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804897 [AuthorName] => Wilson Lee Flores [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) ) )
LAST SAMURAI
Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1024051
                    [Title] => Swordsmith slashes his way to fame
                    [Summary] => 

Would you like to have a sword like the one Tom Cruise used in “The Last Samurai?” What about the weapons of Russell Crowe in “Gladiator,” or Mel Gibson in “Braveheart,” or the ones from the “Beast Master” television series or the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy?

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => The Good News [SectionUrl] => the-good-news [URL] => http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5577/3ctq.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 931459 [Title] => Film review: Oblivion twists, tricks & Tom [Summary] =>

Watching Tom Cruise engaged in a fight scene with a challenger that is obviously also himself can make one crack a joke about the pricey presence of the actor. That somehow it was decided none was worthy enough to share the pivotal screen fight with him on the particular scene.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1795912 [AuthorName] => Yugel Losorata [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 812389 [Title] => Massacre [Summary] =>

May eksena sa paborito kong pelikula – the Last Samurai na pinagbidahan nina Tom Cruise at Ken Watanabe – kung saan sumusugod ang nalalabing mga marangal na Samurai ng Japan, tangan lamang ang tradisyonal na armas tulad ng katana sword at bows & arrows, laban sa bagong military na gamit ang bagong imbento na gatling gun o machine gun.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135410 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805107 [AuthorName] => Ernesto P. Maceda Jr. [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 493380 [Title] => Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu h'quarter buksan ugma [Summary] =>

Pormal nga buksan ugma ang national headquarters kun Honbu sa Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu Rengokai-Kogyokan Dojo diha sa Meadowland subdivision sa barangay Pakigne sa lungsod sa Minglanilla, Cebu.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804726 [AuthorName] => Edwin Ian Melecio [SectionName] => Banat Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 317819 [Title] => KEN WATANABE: ‘Sexy? No, I’m not. I’m just normal.’ [Summary] => The Chairman in the Steven Spielberg production of Memoirs of a Geisha talks about acting, cooking, working in Hollywood but, please, not about being sexy (even if People mag chose him as One of the Sexy Men Alive)

Do you think you’re sexy?


"I don’t think so."

Are you married?


"Why not?"

How would you describe yourself?


"Normal."
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 316603 [Title] => Memoirs of a Geisha: The epic romance comes to the big screen [Summary] => Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall ("Chicago") and producer Steven Spielberg, along with an acclaimed international cast led by Zhang Ziyi ("Hero"), Michelle Yeoh ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), Ken Watanabe ("The Last Samurai") and Gong Li ("2046") bring Arthur Golden's mesmerizing novel to the screen, in Columbia Pictures' "Memoirs of a Geisha."

The sweeping epic romance begins in 1929, near the end of the geishas' golden era. Told as a fable from a disappearing world, the film is set in a fictional hanamachi or geisha district.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 311008 [Title] => Politicians: The Pinoy version of the Samurai! [Summary] => Dec. 7 will always be remembered in the United States of America as a "Day of Infamy" when Japan engineered the most daring undeclared attack under the command of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on the American naval base in Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian islands, which ushered in World War II. In the Philippines, thanks to the international dateline, we commemorate that day on Dec. 8. We, too, had our share of Japanese aggression when Japanese zeros bombed the Cavite naval base.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 262484 [Title] => Adventure Cruise [Summary] => In the movie Interview With The Vampire, two of the most popular and sexiest actors – international superstar Tom Cruise, and A-list hunk Brad Pitt – figured in a scene where Cruise sucked the blood of Pitt. Ten years later, the two over-40 actors still ooze with sex appeal. Their movies showcase their well-toned bodies and supreme power, Pitt in the mega-hit Troy and Cruise in Last Samurai and the current Collateral.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136161 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804907 [AuthorName] => Mylene Mendoza-Dayrit [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 237842 [Title] => Mona Lisa frown [Summary] => Bohemian California-native art history professor Katherine Watson gets a job at a prestigious and conservative 1953 women’s college, her liberal West Coast values clashing with the school’s conservative East Coast principles. The moment I saw Mona Lisa Smile’s trailer, this premise presented to me, I knew I’d love the film. Plus, it starred a beret-donning Julia Roberts and an all-female cast of Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Marcia Gay Harden. [DatePublished] => 2004-02-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133164 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1447883 [AuthorName] => Lanz Leviste [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 236525 [Title] => Leadership, ‘The Last Samurai’ and the Bushido code [Summary] => What lessons on leadership, character and business success can we learn from Asian civilization, especially its ethics and philosophies? What old-fashioned tenets and wisdom should we relearn from the mystical Orient that the modern-day Ivy League MBA courses and countless Western management books like The One-Minute Manager cannot impart to us?

One of the most beautiful and inspiring new films from Hollywood is The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise, directed by Edward Zwick from a screenplay by John Logan, Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804897 [AuthorName] => Wilson Lee Flores [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) ) )
abtest
Are you sure you want to log out?
X
Login

Philstar.com is one of the most vibrant, opinionated, discerning communities of readers on cyberspace. With your meaningful insights, help shape the stories that can shape the country. Sign up now!

Get Updated:

Signup for the News Round now

FORGOT PASSWORD?
SIGN IN
or sign in with