The Last Samurai

• 7.59 Drama
• 2003-12-05
• 154 minutes mins

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Starring:

Tom Cruise (Nathan Algren) Ken Watanabe (Moritsugu Katsumoto) Timothy Spall (Simon Graham) Tony Goldwyn (Col. Benjamin Bagley) Hiroyuki Sanada (Ujio) Koyuki (Taka) Shin Koyamada (Nobutada) Billy Connolly (Zebulon Gant) Togo Igawa (General Hasegawa) Shichinosuke Nakamura (Emperor Meiji)

Director:

Edward Zwick

Writer:

Edward Zwick Marshall Herskovitz John Logan