The Last Samurai

Rating: 7/10 Action Drama War

Release Year: 2003 Language: en

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.

Cast Members

Tom Cruise as Nathan Algren Ken Watanabe as Moritsugu Katsumoto Timothy Spall as Simon Graham Tony Goldwyn as Colonel Bagley Hiroyuki Sanada as Ujio Koyuki as Taka Shin Koyamada as Nobutada Billy Connolly as Zebulon Gant Togo Igawa as General Hasegawa Shichinosuke Nakamura as Emperor Meiji Masato Harada as Omura William Atherton as Winchester Rep Chad Lindberg as Winchester Rep Assistant Scott Wilson as Ambassador Swanbeck Ray Godshall Sr. as Convention Hall Attendee Masashi Odate as Omura's Companion John Koyama as Omura's Bodyguard Satoshi Nikaido as N.C.O. Shintaro Wada as Young Recruit Shun Sugata as Nakao Sosuke Ikematsu as Higen Aoi Minato as Magojiro Seizô Fukumoto as Silent Samurai Shoji Yoshihara as Sword Master Kosaburo Nomura IV as Kyogen Player #1 Takashi Noguchi as Kyogen Player #2 Noguchi Takayuki as Kyogen Player #3 Sven Toorvald as Omura's Secretary Yuki Matsuzaki as Soldier in Street #1 Mitsuyuki Oishi as Soldier in Street #2 Jiro Wada as Soldier in Street #3 Hiroshi Watanabe as Guard Yusuke Myochin as Sword Master's Assistant Hiroaki Amano as Samurai Ensemble Kenta Daibo as Samurai Ensemble Koji Fujii as Samurai Ensemble Makoto Hashiba as Samurai Ensemble Shimpei Horinouchi as Samurai Ensemble Takashi Kora as Samurai Ensemble Shane Kosugi as Samurai Ensemble Takeshi Maya as Samurai Ensemble Seiji Morita as Samurai Ensemble Lee Murayama as Samurai Ensemble Takeru Shimizu as Samurai Ensemble Shinji Suzuki as Samurai Ensemble Hisao Takeda as Samurai Ensemble Ryoichiro Yonekura as Samurai Ensemble Ryoichi Noguchi as Samurai Ensemble Tony Goldwyn as Col. Benjamin Bagley