Last Samurai: Ujio Algren's Great Mentor

Few characters resonated more with me more as a child, than Ujio, and few to my mind have proven more Japanese in some special, unique manner. Played excellently by Sanada Hiroyuki, Ujio is THE bushi to my mind.

But it isn’t simply that he’s a sword wielding badass with a bit of an attitude problem and a temper, it is that he is passionately, resolutely …