The last Samurai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[White Warlock]

Interesting. Thanks Ramy.

[ramymensa]

More about the guy:

 

Captain Jules Brunet was a member of the first French military mission to be sent to Japan in order to help modernize the armies of the shogunate. He was a graduate of the École Polytechnique, and he specialized in artillery. He arrived in Yokohama in the beginning of 1867.

 

The mission was able to train the Shogun's army for a little more than one year, before the Shogunate lost to the Imperial forces in 1868 in the Boshin War. The French military mission was then ordered to leave Japan by Imperial decree.

 

However, Jules Brunet chose to remain. He resigned from the French army, and left for the North of Japan with the remains of the Shogunate's armies in the hope of staging a counter-attack.

 

Jules Brunet helped set up the Ezo Republic, with the leader of the Japanese shogunate's navy, Admiral Enomoto Takeaki, as the President. The final stand occurred in the northern island of Hokkaido, in the city of Hakodate, where in June 1869 the shogunate forces lost a final battle between 800 shogunate soldiers and an 8000-strong Imperial army.

 

Jules Brunet was sent back to France for trial. He was quickly rehabilitated by the time of the war between France and Prussia in 1870, and later rose to the position of Chief of Staff of the French army ("Chef d'Etat Major") under the Minister of War Chanoine (curiously, his superior officer at the French Military mission when he was in Japan) 30 years later in 1898.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Brunet

 

the link for the above information

 

And you are most welcome. Glad I could help

[yireses]

Does anybody now if he practise Karate?

[krzychicano]

When I first heard that Tom Cruise would be in the last samurai, I thought it would blow. My buddy said dude watch the movie. I watched it and I tell you that is an awesome flick.

[kzshin]

I think the coolest character in it is Ujio (or Ukyo).

 

Plus, I think he is the only one that really really know Kenjitsu and Iaido. Actually in Japan, the guy play Ujioo is supposely bigger star than Ken watanabe.

[Shorin Ryuu]

When he was there, Karate wasn't introduced to Japan yet.

[krzychicano]

It still rocks! Even if Pat Morita was in it!