The Last Samurai(Movie, 2003)

Name: The Last Samurai
Genre: Drama, Action, War
Released: 2003
Duration: T02:34:00
Rating: 3.8

| 2h 34min | Genres: Drama, Action, War

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 3,186 votes)

The Last Samurai is a 2003 epic period action drama film directed and produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan. The film stars Ken Watanabe in the title role, with Tom Cruise, who also produced, as a soldier-turned-samurai who befriends him, and Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Koyuki in supporting roles. Cruise portrays Nathan Algren, an American captain of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, whose personal and emotional conflicts bring him into contact with samurai warriors in the wake of the Meiji Restoration in 19th century Japan. The film's plot was i... ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Last Samurai

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Costume Design nominated for: Academy Award for Best Production Design nominated for: Academy Award for Best Sound

About The Last Samurai

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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The Last Samurai - Original Theatrical Trailer(Trailer, 2:25)

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Official websites:

www.warnerbros.com

Production countries: Japan, New Zealand, United States of America (USA)

Shot in: New Zealand, Japan

Plays in: California, Japan

Made by: Warner Bros. Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions, Bedford Falls Productions, Radar Pictures Inc.

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Japanese (JA)

Translated into 43 languages: Arabic (AR), Belarusian (BE), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hindi (HI), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Burmese (MY), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Norwegian Nynorsk (NN), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/05/2003

Appearing Characters: Saigō Takamori, Ōkubo Toshimichi, Emperor Meiji

Cast: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Shin Koyamada, Tony Goldwyn, Masato Harada, Hiroyuki Sanada, Timothy Spall, Koyuki, Billy Connolly, Togo Igawa, Scott Wilson, William Atherton, Sosuke Ikematsu, Chad Lindberg, Seizō Fukumoto, Nakamura Shichinosuke II, Shun Sugata

Director: Edward Zwick

Producer: Marshall Herskovitz, Paula Wagner, John A. Logan, Edward Zwick

Screenwriter: John Logan, Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick

Film Editor: Steven Rosenblum

Director of Photography: John Toll

Composer: Hans Zimmer

Performer: Hans Zimmer

Costume designer: Ngila Dickson

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"L'últim samurai"

"El último samurái"

"ラスト・サムライ：2003"

"Ostatni Samuraj"

"Poslednji samuraj"

"Samurai"

"The Last Samurai: Bushidou"

Keywords: japan, campaign, mountain village, gettysburg, period drama, swordplay, u.s. soldier, general, language barrier, alcoholic, arms deal, emperor, foreign legion, japanese army, self-discovery, homeland, war strategy

Budget: 140,000,000 USD

Revenue: 456,800,000 USD (= 326%)

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The Last Samurai(Movie, 2003)

Where to watch The Last Samurai (cinema/streaming/download)?

Awards & Nominations for The Last Samurai

About The Last Samurai

Trailer for The Last Samurai + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

The Last Samurai - Original Theatrical Trailer(Trailer, 2:25)

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