The Last Samurai

Japan, New Zealand and United States of America, 2003

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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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Credits

director

Edward Zwick

costume design

Ngila Dickson

editor

Steven Rosenblum

Victor Du Bois

producer

Edward Zwick

Marshall Herskovitz

Paula Wagner

Scott Kroopf

Tom Cruise

Tom Engelman

production company

Bedford Falls Productions

Cruise/Wagner Productions

Radar Pictures

Warner Bros. Pictures

production design

Lilly Kilvert

screenplay

Edward Zwick

John Logan

Marshall Herskovitz

story

John Logan

Duration

02:34:00

Production dates
2003

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-616

Language

English

Subject categories

Action

Drama

War

TMDB-Movie

616

Wikidata

Q207130

Collected

83 times

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