The Last Samurai

7.6

United States Of America

Drama Action War

154 min

2003

Chad Lindberg Shane Kosugi Hiroshi Watanabe Yuki Matsuzaki Takashi Noguchi Seizō Fukumoto Sosuke Ikematsu Shun Sugata Satoshi Nikaido John Koyama Masashi Odate Scott Wilson Tom Cruise William Atherton Masato Harada Shichinosuke Nakamura Togo Igawa Billy Connolly Shin Koyamada Koyuki Hiroyuki Sanada Tony Goldwyn Timothy Spall Ken Watanabe

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.