kerryland wrote:The Last Samurai was largely filmed in New Zealand, and if you take a look on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/fullcredits) you'll see that "the whole crew is Japanese" isn't very close to being accurate
There do seem to have been lots of Japanese stuntmen though.
Maybe I should've said "the important actors" instead of "the whole crew".
Ken Watanabe ( Katsumoto),
Hiroyuki Sanada (Ujio),
Koyuki (Taka),
Shin Koyamada (Nobutada),
Masato Harada (Omura)
and Shichinosuke Nakamura (the emperor) are Japanese.