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The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic period action drama film directed and produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan.
Dec 5, 2003 · Tom Cruise stars as a US army veteran who trains the Japanese emperor's army in modern warfare and befriends a samurai leader. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this Oscar-nominated film.
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- Action, Drama
- Edward Zwick
- 2003-12-05
Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is an American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern...
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- Edward Zwick
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- Tom Cruise
In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a cynical veteran of the American Civil War, who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing Imperial Army in modern warfare using firearms.
Dec 5, 2003 · Edward Zwick 's "The Last Samurai" is about two warriors whose cultures make them aliens, but whose values make them comrades. The battle scenes are stirring and elegantly mounted, but they are less about who wins than about what can be proven by dying.
Dec 5, 2003 · Watch the trailer, buy or rent the movie, and learn more about the plot and cast of The Last Samurai, a 2003 action-adventure film starring Tom Cruise. Set in Japan in the 1870s, the movie follows a US soldier who trains the Imperial army and clashes with the samurai warriors.
Civil War soldier Nathan Algren leaves the USA for feudal Japan. After signing up to help defeat a warlord, he is captured. Algren knows the fate of enemy prisoners, but he is surprised to be spared and then finds himself drawn to the samurai's way of life, amongst other things.
