The Last Samurai
- Released on
Drama, Action, War
•- Runtime
- 154 mins
(6808 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Tom Cruise
- Ken Watanabe
- Timothy Spall
- Tony Goldwyn
- Hiroyuki Sanada
- Koyuki
- Shin Koyamada
- Billy Connolly
- Togo Igawa
- Shichinosuke Nakamura
- Masato Harada
- William Atherton
- Chad Lindberg
- Scott Wilson
- Ray Godshall Sr.
- Masashi Odate
- John Koyama
- Satoshi Nikaido
- Shintaro Wada
- Shun Sugata
- Sosuke Ikematsu
- Aoi Minato
- Seizō Fukumoto
- Shoji Yoshihara
- Kosaburo Nomura IV
- Takashi Noguchi
- Noguchi Takayuki
- Sven Toorvald
- Yuki Matsuzaki
- Mitsuyuki Oishi
- Jiro Wada
- Hiroshi Watanabe
- Yusuke Myochin
- Hiroaki Amano
- Kenta Daibo
- Koji Fujii
- Makoto Hashiba
- Shimpei Horinouchi
- Takashi Kora
- Shane Kosugi
- Takeshi Maya
- Seiji Morita
- Lee Murayama
- Takeru Shimizu
- Shinji Suzuki
- Hisao Takeda
- Ryoichiro Yonekura
- Ryoichi Noguchi
Director
- Edward Zwick
Producers
- Tom Engelman
- Paula Wagner
- Edward Zwick
- Tom Cruise
- Marshall Herskovitz
- Scott Kroopf
Screenwriter
- John Logan
- Edward Zwick
- Marshall Herskovitz
