The last samurai [DVD videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Radar Pictures/Bedford Falls Company/Cruise-Wagner production ; story by John Logan ; screenplay by John Logan and Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Starring Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe et al. Warner Brothers : 28383.
Summary:
"Tom Cruise plays Civil War hero Capt. Nathan Algren, who comes to Japan to fight the Samurai and ends up pledging himself to their cause. Ken Watanabe ... plays Katsumoto, a Samurai leader facing a vanishing way of life, whose destiny becomes intertwined with that of the American captain. Edward Zwick ... directs this sweeping and emotional epic tale of the birth of modern Japan." -- on back cover.
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