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AFI Awards, USA. 2004 Winner AFI Award. Movie of the Year. THE LAST SAMURAI presents a timeless story of honor in the cinematic tradition of Akira Kurosawa. This beautifully crafted star vehicle serves one of America's modern screen icons, and Tom Cruise not only rises to the challenge, but carries the film into the history books with great ...
It received praise for the acting, visuals, cinematography and Hans Zimmer 's score but criticism for some of its portrayals. It was nominated for several awards, including four Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two National Board of Review Awards .
The Last Samurai: Directed by Edward Zwick. With Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, William Atherton, Chad Lindberg. Nathan Algren, a US army veteran, is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his army in the modern warfare techniques. Nathan finds himself trapped in a struggle between two eras and two worlds.
The Last Samurai. 2003. Edward Zwick. Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn ... 6.8. 82,561. Adventure. Action. Drama Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a former Civil War hero, is adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the war, a lost soul struggling to stay afloat in a booze-soaked stupor.
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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Awards Database. 3 Nominations. 0 Wins. The Last Samurai. Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare — in this lush epic set in the 1870s, which finds Algren learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them.
Nov 11, 2003 · A parallel story is told of Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe), the so-called last leader of the ancient samurai, whose traditions are being encroached upon by a more Westernized, trade-friendly government ...
