ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

(MGT 534)
MOVIE REVIEW REPORT
47 RONIN
Lecturer

:Madam Syezreen Dalina Binti Rusdi

Group members

Norsyazwani Binti A.Rahman

(2015834992)
Nur Afiqah Binti Jamal
(2015834044)
Nur Farah Syuhada Binti Mohd Ramdani
(2015859294)

Nurul Umi Nadhirah Binti Mohd Saifuddin

(2015887024)

Class
1.0

: BM234 3N

Acknowledgement

Assalamualaikum w.b.t. All praise and thanks to Allah the exalted, we are
finally complete in performing our group assignment which is movie review
for Organization Behavior (MGT 534) subject in order to fulfill the
requirement of the subject assessment.
We had to take the help and guideline of some respected persons, who
deserve greatest gratitude. We would like to show our gratitude to our
Organizational Behavior (MGT 534) lecturer, Madam Syezreen Dalina Binti
Rusdi for giving us a guideline for this assignment throughout numerous
consultations. We dedicate a million thanks for giving and teaching us all the
knowledge that are very useful for us to use it for this moment and also for
the future.
We would also like to expand our deepest gratitude to our parents for always
giving us a moral and material supports throughout finishing the assignment
for this semester. Even tough, we faced a bit challenges in doing the
assignment but we managed to make it happen successfully.
Last but not least, not to forget we dedicate the appreciation to all those who
directly and indirectly guided us in making this assignment especially our
classmates and team members itself, which gave us an inspiration to
improve our assignment. We hope we can apply knowledge and everything
that we learn in the subject and assignment given in the future.

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1.0 Acknowledgement
2.0 Synopsis
3.0 Discussion
3.1 Power
3.2 Leadership
3.3 Conflict
3.4 Team Dynamic

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3.5 Motivation
4.0 Lesson learned
5.0 Conclusion

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Synopsis

47 Ronin is based on Japanese historical tale. The story tells about a group of samurai who were left
leaderless who becoming ronin after their daimyo which is feudal lord, Asano Naganori was compelled
to commit a ritual suicide for a trial to kill a court official named Kira Yoshinaka. But actually Asano
Naganori was been spelled by the witch named Mizuki. Kira Yoshinaka or known as Lord Kira have a
conspiracy with the witch and they have a hidden agenda.
This story also tells about Kai, which called as a half-breed and was being hated by most people in Ako
except Lord Asano and Lady Mika who take care of him since they found him in the forest because most
of them belief Kai was raised by Demon and bring bad luck to them. Kai is actually very loyal person
who obey with the order from the Lord. He also really concerned and protective over persons in Ako even
though nobody appreciate his existing. Moreover, he is good in fighting and willing to help anyone even
he was not been authorized as a samurai.
Later on after Lord Asano passed away, Lord Kira thrown Oishi which is an assistant to Lord Asano
outside the Ako because he can feel that Oishi know his agenda and will take revenge on him.
Furthermore, the Shogun already warned them to not take any revenge on their leaders death. Kai also
has been sold as a slave at one place near bay and been forced to fight every day as a show to people
there. Meanwhile, Lady Mika which is Lord Asanos daughter also been forced to follow Lord Kira and
married him within one year.
Next, after Oishi have been released from dungeon, he started to plan revenge. He tried to help Kai to go
out from the place and he gathered back all the samurai. They faced so many obstacles. In shorts, the

ronin avenged their master's honor by killing Kira, after waiting and planning for a year. In turn, all the 47
ronin was obliged to commit suicide for committing the crime of murder under the order of Shogun.
This true story was popularized in Japanese culture as emblematic of the loyalty, sacrifice, persistence,
and honor that people should preserve in their daily lives. The popularity of the tale grew during the Meiji
era, in which Japan underwent rapid modernization, and the legend became entrenched within discourses
of national heritage and identity.

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Discussion

3.1

Power

Power is the capacity of a person, team, or organization to influence others. From this movie,
there is a Shogun which is king that has absolute power and influence control over others. For
example, there is no one dare to disobey his order.
3.2

Leadership

Leadership is about influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute towards the
effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members. From this movie,
leadership is shown when Oishi set up a strategic plan to killed Kira, so he asked his samurai to
follow his order. A strategic plan need to be done in a systematic way and by doing that, they
achieved their objective and goal.
3.3

Conflict

Conflict is the process in which one party perceives that its interest are being opposed or
nagatively affected by another party. From this movie, the beginning of the conflict is when the
half-breed saved Yasuno life. Because of his ego, he felt like half-breed is not part of samurai.
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3.4

Team Dynamic

Team are a group of two or more people who interact and influence one another, are mutually
accountable for achieving common goals associated with organizational objectives, and perceive
themselves as a social entity within an organization. From this movie, team dynamic is shown
when 47 ronin who worked together with the performers in order to complete their mission. For
example, Oishi disguised as a performer to attract other people attention, so that the other
samurai can complete their mission according to the plan.
3.5

Motivation

Motivation is the force within a person that affected his or her direction, intensity, and
persistence of voluntary behavior. From this movie, the ronin want to seek avenged and justice
for their lord and regain their honor.

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Lesson learned

There are a lot of moral valued and lesson learned that we get in this movie. Firstly is honor. A
person who lives with honor does not allow fear to get in the way of doing what needs to be
done. For example, all 47 ronin in this story asked and begged Shogun to die which commit
suicide in honorable ways after take revenge to Lord Kira. There is no fear in themselves because
they know they will die in honorable ways beside their Lord Asano.
Second is loyalty. As we know, loyalty towards the leader is part of Japanese cultures. The depth
of loyalty honorable men can give knows no bounds. But it is earned not with big words but
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through acts that sometimes hardly create ripples at the onset. In this movie, all the people was
really obey to the Shogun which also known as a king. Every order from the Shogun they follow.
Moreover, all the 47 ronin also have a depth loyalty to Lord Asano even though he already died.
They are willing to sacrifice their life to avenge Lord Asano death.
Next is courage. True courage is not about the confidence of having the skills to fight. Its about
moving forward despite the distinct possibility of failing. Its like willingly going into a fight
with one foot hovering near the edge of the deepest pit of immeasurable loss or grief. We can
follow their spirit and courage in our daily life and take it as a life lessons.
Besides, patience is one of the moral valued that we can learn in 47 Ronins movie. As whats
been often said, all things happen in their own time. Even justice sometimes has to wait before it
can be extracted. To suffer injustice with patience is never easy. Oishi and his team need to wait
for a long period to take revenge on Lord Kira. They are really patient in organizing strategies
and suitable time to take action.
Lastly is a good teamwork. All the ronin shows a good teamwork even though at first they have a
lot of conflict between them but they manage to overcome it slowly. They tried to discard uneasy
feelings and change the behavior in order to achieve the goals. Due to good teamwork, they
success to get into Lord Kira palace and fight with enemy.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, this movie can be viewed by 13 years old and above with a guidance from parents.
We can take a lot of lesson through 47 Ronin story which we can apply it in our daily life
especially in an organization such as team dynamic. It is important to have synergy between
team members to create harmonize among them.
Moreover, we also can gain knowledge through this movie which shows us about Japanese
culture since this story is based on their historical tale. Intentionally, we also know that Japanese
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people are really loyal towards their leader and willing to do anything for the sake of the team.
This is an important element that people in organization should apply it in the work place or even
in a group. But loyalty should have a boarder, if leader order to do something wrong we should
know how to resist it brilliantly.
We can conclude that not all movies are just for entertainment purposes only, but there are a lot
of good values that we can take inside the movie if we watch and relate it in our studies
especially. For instance, it will lead us to be more concern and easy to catch up topics in our
subject like Organizational Behavior by relating it with our surroundings.

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