The Last Samurai
Released in 2006, The Last Samurai fared pretty well critics and performed decently at the box office. Overall, the movie is well put together and avoids the most glaring errors. However, there is one small technicality overlooked that had some of the more observant and knowledgeable viewers put off. In the film, Tom Cruise’s character Captain Nathan Algren sports the sort of intricate samurai gear you would expect to see a samurai wearing. While his armor is aesthetically pleasing to look at and does not veer into offensively wrong territory, the time period during which such a style of armor would be prevalent is off. The film is set in 1876, and the armor dates back to 1600. Therefore, that armor would technically be obsolete by a true samurai’s standard.