The Last Samurai

Name: The Last Samurai
Cast: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada

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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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Cast & Crew

Director: Edward ZwickWriters: John Logan, Marshall HerskovitzProducers: Charles Mulvehill, Paula Wagner, Richard Solomon, Scott Kroopf, Ted Field, Tom Cruise, Tom Engelman, Vincent Ward

Tom Cruise

as Nathan Algren

Ken Watanabe

as Moritsugu Katsumoto

Timothy Spall

as Simon Graham

Tony Goldwyn

as Col. Benjamin Bagley

Hiroyuki Sanada

as Ujio

Koyuki

as Taka

Shin Koyamada

as Nobutada

Billy Connolly

as Zebulon Gant

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