The Last Samurai (2003)
Rating: 7.6/10
Duration: 154 min
Director(s): Edward Zwick,
Description:
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.
Cast
- Tony Goldwyn as Col. Benjamin Bagley
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Ujio
- Timothy Spall as Simon Graham
- Tom Cruise as Nathan Algren
- William Atherton as Winchester Rep
- Scott Wilson as Ambassador Swanbeck
- Billy Connolly as Zebulon Gant
- Togo Igawa as General Hasegawa
- Ken Watanabe as Moritsugu Katsumoto
- Chad Lindberg as Winchester Rep Assistant
- Koyuki as Taka
- Shin Koyamada as Nobutada
- Shichinosuke Nakamura as Emperor Meiji
- Masato Harada as Omura
- Ray Godshall Sr. as Convention Hall Attendee