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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  Tom Cruise

  Nathan Algren
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  Ken Watanabe

  Moritsugu Katsumoto
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  Timothy Spall

  Simon Graham
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  Tony Goldwyn

  Col. Benjamin Bagley
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  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Ujio
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  Koyuki

  Taka
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  Shin Koyamada

  Nobutada
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  Billy Connolly

  Zebulon Gant
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  Togo Igawa

  General Hasegawa
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  Shichinosuke Nakamura

  Emperor Meiji