Watch a Movie on Fancast: John Wayne in “The Barbarian and The Geisha”

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John Wayne, known affectionately as The Duke (do actors get awesome nicknames like this anymore?), stars outside of his usual milieu in the John Huston film The Barbarian and The Geisha. It’s based on the true story of Townsend Harris (Wayne), who became the first ever American ambassador to Japan back in 1856, named by President Franklin Pierce, only to discover that the Japanese are quite hostile towards him. Through perseverance, he manages to earn enough respect for them to allow him to enter Tokyo. In the process, the young geisha girl Okichi (Eiko Ando) who was sent to undermine his mission actually falls in love with Harris, and that story has apparently become a folk tale in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Watch the trailer for The Barbarian and The Geisha.

If you’d like to see The Duke in more familiar territory, you can also watch The Longest Day in its entirety here, where he’s a World War II soldier preparing for D-Day.