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The Last Samurai is a 2003 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 · With Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, William Atherton, Chad Lindberg. In 19th century Japan, Nathan Algren, a US army captain, is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his army in the modern warfare techniques. Captain Algren finds himself trapped in a struggle between two eras and two worlds.
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- Action, Drama
- Edward Zwick
- 2003-12-05
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.
Mar 3, 2023 · Jules Brunet was a French officer who fought in Japan's 1868 Boshin War and inspired the character Nathan Algren in 'The Last Samurai.' Jules Brunet joined Japan's samurai rebels, endangering his career and his life.
Mar 16, 2024 · The epic Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai is based on a true story, but how much of it is rooted in history?
- Edward Zwick
- Ken Watanabe
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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.
Set in the late 1870s, this epic film depicts the beginnings of the modernization of Japan, as the island nation evolved past a feudal society, as symbolized by the eradication of the samurai way of life.
