曾经的上尉纳沙·艾尔格兰在美国国内原本只是雇佣军,对经济的需要促使他加入了战争,战争对他的人生根本没有任何崇高意义可言。然而一次偶然的机会他来到了日本。纳沙·艾尔格兰所训练的日本第一支现代化军队被妄图阻挡现代化进程的顽固武士集团所击败后,他本人也被武士们俘虏了。在宁静的乡村中,在与森圣元和其他武士的朝夕相处中,使他对于武士有了一定程度的了解。不但完成了对日本武士精神的观察、理解和传承,而且还找到了作为一名战士所应有的荣誉感。影片《最后的武士》美国军官纳沙·艾尔格兰的视角实现了对于武士精神的观察、理解和传承,从而记录了一位饱受战争创伤、失去人生目标的美国军官在日本传统文化中所受的心灵震撼。本文通过对影片中所折射出的十九世纪中叶日本的社会现象,进一步诠释了美国军官对日本人所遵循着的古老的武士教条所做深刻的理解。 Former Captain Nasir Algran was originally a mercenary only in the United States, and the need for economy led him to join the war, which did not have any supreme meaning to his life at all. However, by chance he came to Japan. After the defeat of the first modern army trained by Natsa El Granland by a group of die-hard samurai who attempted to stop the process of modernization, he himself was taken prisoner by warriors. In the peaceful countryside, getting in touch with Morishita and other samurai gave him a degree of understanding of warriors. Not only completed the observation, understanding and inheritance of the Japanese warrior spirit, but also found a sense of honor as a soldier. The film “The Last Samurai” The perspective of US officer Natsa El Gora realized the observation, understanding and inheritance of the warrior’s spirit and thus recorded that in the traditional culture of Japan, a U.S. military officer who suffered from the trauma and loss of life Shocked by the heart. The article further illustrates the profound understanding of American military officers over the ancient samurai doctrine followed by the Japanese through the social phenomena of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century as reflected in the films.