Balkan Line vs The Last Samurai
Balkan Line and The Last Samurai are tied on audience score (7.5/10). Balkan Line is the shorter watch at 2h 10m compared with 2h 34m. The Last Samurai is the older of the two (2003 against 2019). Both are action, drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Balkan Line
The Last Samurai| Balkan Line | The Last Samurai | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2003 |
| Length | 2h 10m | 2h 34m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, War | Action, Drama, War |
| Country | Russia | United States of America |
| Director | Andrey Volgin | Edward Zwick |
| Main cast | Emir Kusturica, Anton Pampushnyy, Gosha Kutsenko, Miloš Biković, Milena Radulović | Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Timothy Spall, Tom Cruise, William Atherton |
Synopsis
Balkan Line
After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
The Last Samurai
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
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