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Marshall Herskovitz. Screenplay. 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 ...
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Nathan finds himself trapped in a struggle between two eras and two worlds. 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 ...
Dec 5, 2003 · John Logan. Screenplay, Story. Marshall Herskovitz. Screenplay. 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.
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Dec 3, 2003 · An Interview with the Director and Cast of The Last Samurai Director Edward Zwick and the film's stars Ken Watanabe, Tony Goldwyn and Hiroyuki Sanada discuss the making of the samurai epic.
Gretchen Rau. Ngila Dickson. Editors. Victor Du Bois. (in credits: Victor Dubois) Steven Rosenblum. Cast and crew of «The Last Samurai» (2003). Roles and the main characters. Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, Koyuki.
