The Last Samurai

We watched the American movie The Last Samurai on DVD tonight. Mum says this movie is good, because it can be compared with kennel Taichung in the USA, where she was born and raised. Just like the main caracter in the movie, Captain Nathan Algren, Laura Perkinson at kennel Taichung is an American who helps Japanese to preserve their national heritage. Capt. Algren did this by fighting for the samurai way of life, bushido. Mrs. Perkinson does this by breeding the Japanese national breed Shiba Inu. The fact that Algren is a Swedish name can be see as a symbol for the cooperation Taichung has got with our Swedish kennel Aangenaam. - It is quite fun to read a lot of meanings into movies that are not supposed to be there.