The Last Samurai
Film2003154 min7.6/10 on TMDB
Directed by Edward Zwick
In the face of an enemy, in the heart of one man, lies the soul of a warrior.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Tom CruiseNathan Algren
Ken WatanabeMoritsugu Katsumoto
Timothy SpallSimon Graham
Tony GoldwynCol. Benjamin Bagley
Hiroyuki SanadaUjio
KoyukiTaka
Shin KoyamadaNobutada
Billy ConnollyZebulon Gant
Togo IgawaGeneral Hasegawa
Shichinosuke NakamuraEmperor Meiji
Masato HaradaOmura
William AthertonWinchester RepExplore the crew
- Producer
- Paula Wagner
- Screenplay
- Edward Zwick
- Screenplay
- Marshall Herskovitz
- Editor
- Victor Du Bois
- Director of Photography
- John Toll
- Producer
- Marshall Herskovitz
- Producer
- Edward Zwick
- Screenplay
- John Logan
- Producer
- Scott Kroopf
- Producer
- Tom Cruise
- Director
- Edward Zwick
- Producer
- Tom Engelman
- Original Music Composer
- Hans Zimmer
- Editor
- Steven Rosenblum