The Last Samurai

• Movie

  Type

• 2003

  Year

• 2h 34m

  Runtime

• ★ 7.4

  Rating

• Drama / Action / War

  Genre

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.

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Cast

Tom Cruise

Captain Nathan Algren

Ken Watanabe

Katsumoto

William Atherton

Winchester Rep

Chad Lindberg

Winchester Rep Assistant

Billy Connolly

Zebulon Gant

Tony Goldwyn

Colonel Bagley

Shichinosuke Nakamura

Emperor Meiji

Koyuki

Taka

Timothy Spall

Simon Graham

Togo Igawa

General Hasegawa

Scott Wilson

Ambassador Swanbeck

Shun Sugata

Nakao