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- Steven Schwalger5d agoA great "based on true events" movie well worth your time. Everything that happened in the true historical events are dumbed down and simplified. Drama and Americans are added to make it easily accessible. What we are left with is a truly epic tale of how the west ruiend Japan that everyone can watch without getting bogged down in all the politics. I've watched this movie more than a handful of times and every time I come away wanting more. More samuri more battles more blood but sadly the samurai are dead.
- TomVaderSeptember 8, 2025If you take this movie as it is, and don't think about it too much, it's a good movie. There's lots of action, sword fights, guns, cannons, explosions, fire, enough of a story to have a reason for the action, some pretty amazing scenery, some humor, and even Ninja's show up for some reason. It starts to lose some luster when you start to think about how ridiculous the premise is. It's fun, but don't take it too seriously.
- Shaun FirthApril 12, 2025My favorite Tom Cruise film. Ken Watanabe and Timothy Spall stand out in this Lush historical epic. Billy Connolly dies too soon, but Cruise does an admirable job as a transplanted civil war hero, drowning in whiskey and guilt. The movie is beautiful and exciting, and while I don’t know how accurate it is historically, it is a tour of feudal Japan at a time when past and future were violently colliding. It made me wish I could visit the islands when they were all lush green and peaceful, before the atom bomb, Sony and Toyota dragged them into the future.
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The Last Samurai was released on December 5, 2003.
The Last Samurai was directed by Edward Zwick.
The Last Samurai has a runtime of 2h 34m.
The Last Samurai was produced by Paula Wagner, Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick, Scott Kroopf, Tom Cruise, Tom Engelman.
In 19th century Japan, Nathan Algren, a US army captain, is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his army in the modern warfare techniques. Captain Algren finds himself trapped in a struggle between two eras and two worlds.
The key characters in The Last Samurai are Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), Moritsugu Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe), Simon Graham (Timothy Spall).
The Last Samurai is rated R.
The Last Samurai is an Action, Drama, War film.
The Last Samurai has an audience rating of 8.3 out of 10.
The Last Samurai had a budget of $140M.
The Last Samurai has made $456.8M at the box office.