The part where the Ninjas attack the village while they were watching a stage-play. When Katsumoto was fighting one-on-two ninjas. And Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) intercepted. When Katsumoto threw a sword at a ninja struggling with Nathan, the ninja died and Nathan picked himself up to extract the sword out of the ninja, u can play it at slow-motion mode and look at the hand of Nathan and see that there's actually 2 different methods of grabbing the sword. One frame is "thumb-down" and the next one is "thumb-up". How can one switch their handling so quickly? At an estimated time from 1:11:9 and 1:11:10 on DVD.