The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai

Actors:  Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly Directors:  Edward Zwick

In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a cynical veteran of the American Civil War, who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing Imperial Army in modern warfare using firearms. The Imperial Omura (Masato Harada) cabinet's f...