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Release Date: 2003

Cast: Koyuki, Timothy Spall, Togo Igawa, Tony Goldwyn, Sosuke Ikematsu, Masato Harada, Shin Koyamada, Shichinosuke Nakamura II, Billy Connolly, Aoi Minato, Ken Watanabe, Shun Sugata ...MORE

Cast: Koyuki, Timothy Spall, Togo Igawa, Tony Goldwyn, Sosuke Ikematsu, Masato Harada, Shin Koyamada, Shichinosuke Nakamura II, Billy Connolly, Aoi Minato, Ken Watanabe, Shun Sugata, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tom Cruise, William Atherton ...LESS

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The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic drama film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay based on a story by John Logan. The film was inspired by a project developed by writer and director Vincent Ward, who had previously filmed the movie in 1990, starring Lance Henriksen, John Fujioka, and John Saxon. Ward became executive producer on the film – working in development on it for nearly four years and after approaching several directors (Coppola, Weir), he interested Edward Zwick. The film production went ahead with Zwick and was shot in Ward’s... MORE

The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic drama film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay based on a story by John Logan. The film was inspired by a project developed by writer and director Vincent Ward, who had previously filmed the movie in 1990, starring Lance Henriksen, John Fujioka, and John Saxon. Ward became executive producer on the film – working in development on it for nearly four years and after approaching several directors (Coppola, Weir), he interested Edward Zwick. The film production went ahead with Zwick and was shot in Ward’s native New Zealand. The film stars Tom Cruise (who also co-produced) in the role of American soldier Nathan Algren, whose personal and emotional conflicts bring him into contact with samurai warriors in the wake of the Meiji Restoration in the Empire of Japan in 1876 and 1877. Other actors include Ken Watanabe, Shin Koyamada, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Timothy Spall, and Billy Connolly. The film's plot was inspired by the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion led by Saigō Takamori, and also on the stories of Jules Brunet, a French army captain who fought alongside Enomoto Takeaki in the earlier Boshin War and LESS