The Last Samurai
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2003
2h 34m
R
English
Drama, Action, War
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The Last Samurai
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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Cast
Nathan Algren
Moritsugu Katsumoto
Simon Graham
Col. Benjamin Bagley
Ujio
Taka
Nobutada
Zebulon Gant
General Hasegawa
Emperor Meiji
Omura
Winchester Rep
Winchester Rep Assistant
Ambassador Swanbeck
Convention Hall Attendee
Omura's Companion
Omura's Bodyguard
N.C.O.
Young Recruit
Nakao
Higen
Magojiro
Silent Samurai
Sword Master
Kyogen Player #1
Directed By: Edward Zwick
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r96sk
4 years ago
Recommended.
'The Last Samurai' features some very cool and entertaining battle sequences, which are shot excellently. The premise itself is attracting, it's acted out astutely by the noteworthy cast list. It probably lasts too long, but I never truly got a feeling of it dragging out tho More
'The Last Samurai' features some very cool and entertaining battle sequences, which are shot excellently. The premise itself is attracting, it's acted out astutely by the noteworthy cast list. It probably lasts too long, but I never truly got a feeling of it dragging out tho More
TopKek
6 years ago
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. Beautifully designed, intelligently written, ac More
CinemaSerf
10 months ago
"Nathan Algren" (Tom Cruise) is a disenchanted, alcoholic Captain who, post American Civil War, is offered the chance of a fresh, lucrative, start in Japan training some raw recruits to form the basis a standing Imperial Army. He arrives and is presented to the young, forward-looking but somewhat in More
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