The Last Samurai

Name: The Last Samurai
Director: Edward Zwick
Genre: Drama, Action, War
Released: 2003-12-05
Duration: 2 h 34 min
Rating: 7.602
Cast: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada

Directed by Edward Zwick

Drama

Action

War

20032h 34m7.6

Overview

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.