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The writing you see below was actually my essay that I wrote in the past year before I came to United States for my exchange study program. When I looked up today, I suddenly felt that it's literally not a bad essay :-)
Somehow I feel good about it. I wonder, why could I write these things?


Katsumoto Moritsugu

Do you ever watch an epic movie which titled The Last Samurai?
If you ever watch that movie, I think you still remember with Katsumoto Moritsugu. He was the last leader of an ancient line of warriors, the venerated Samurai, who dedicated their lives to serving emperor and country.

Well, I don’t know exactly why I’m so amazed with this figure of Katsumoto in that movie. Perhaps, the director gave his best choice for choosing Ken Watanabe as Katsumoto so that I could get the charisma easily and get the point of message that he will bring it on.
But actually I don’t want to talk about the director, or the movie, or the actor and actress in this essay. What I’m going to do is to learn about the character of Katsumoto as a loyal and powerful convictions leader at that moment.
Let’s say that the story of The Last Samurai is true and we have ever seen the Katsumoto before!

As a leader, Katsumoto have to be smart. And he did. We can see in the movie when he was not executing Nathan Algren-in the movie, Tom Cruise played as this guy-as his enemy to face the death soon but he brought that American brave soldier to his home. And what he going to do was learning from that soldier about how he win in those fights, and about how he was be as a Captain.

And I think that a good leader never stop to learn from any sources that he can get, even to his rivals. And I learn that from Katsumoto.
Again, I learn from Katsumoto that a leader must be objective over his emotion. In the movie, I still remember when he was difficult to make a conversation with Nathan Algren because the Captain still being so mad of his confusing condition. The Captain have shouted and screamed all day long but Katsumoto always face it calmly with a deep thinking.

But somehow, the most important thing that I admire him so much is because his sense of honor that guides him into loyalty and great dedication of life. He and so all of the Samurai spend their lifetime for one destination that they believe of it. They have an outstanding discipline and as a leader, Katsumoto defend it till the end. Till he fight in an act of determining war. Till he have to die to finish his job for serving the emperor.

And after all, I as a student have learned so many things from a person like Katsumoto. How I have to be objective person and make it prior than my emotion especially in teenager life. How I have to be loyal and dedicate my life through my destination of life, through my idealism. And one thing, that success cannot be happen without a great dedication and discipline of life.***



That's is my essay. Reading it one more time, I feel that I want to see the movie again. This movie is a very good movie to watch and I will never get bored to watch it all over again-like I watch Jumanji hundred times since I was a kid. I feel pretty deep cultural experiment and emotional appearances anytime I watch this movie.



If you haven't seen this movie, I gotta say : Too bad...
=)