The Last Samurai In the face of an enemy, in the heart of one man, lies the soul of a warrior. Release date: 2003-12-05 Genres: Drama, Action, War Actors: Hiroyuki Sanada, Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Koyuki, Shin Koyamada, Togo Igawa, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroshi Watanabe, Shinji Suzuki, William Atherton, Masashi Odate, Shun Sugata, Timothy Spall, Sosuke Ikematsu, Scott Wilson, Billy Connolly, Chad Lindberg, Seizō Fukumoto, Satoshi Nikaido, Takashi Noguchi, John Koyama, Yuki Matsuzaki, Takeshi Maya, Shintaro Wada, Shichinosuke Nakamura, Shane Kosugi, Makoto Hashiba, Takeru Shimizu, Jiro Wada, Hisao Takeda, Yusuke Myochin, Aoi Minato, Sven Toorvald, Shoji Yoshihara, Takashi Kora, Ryoichi Noguchi, Koji Fujii, Noguchi Takayuki, Mitsuyuki Oishi, Ray Godshall Sr., Shimpei Horinouchi, Kosaburo Nomura IV, Kenta Daibo, Lee Murayama, Hiroaki Amano, Ryoichiro Yonekura Direction: Masato Harada Budget: $140,000,000Revenue: $456,800,000 Runtime: 2 h. 34 min. Score: 7.6/10 Votes: 7,134 Countries: United States of America, Japan, New Zealand Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, Radar Pictures, Bedford Falls Productions, Cruise/Wagner Productions, Shochiku Studio Available* : 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.
