12+ The Last Samurai 2003 Movie Poster Pictures. With tom cruise, ken watanabe, billy connolly, william atherton. The battles he once fought now seem distant and futile.
He accepts the responsibility of turning peasants into an army skilled at using modern weapons for the emperor of japan. They would also use traditional weapons like swords. If the movie was either a drama or an action film instead of trying to be both, i think it would have more of an identity.
Tom cruise stars as nathan algren, a veteran of the the samurai who took part in the satsuma rebellion, which this movie is based on, did indeed use rifles and cannons.
The last samurai is a 2003 historical drama that stars tom cruise as nathan algren, a disillusioned american civil war and indian wars veteran who travels to japan to take a job training soldiers in modern weaponry in order to help wipe out the samurai. Captain nathan algren (tom cruise) is a man adrift. That's a beautiful dream, and it gives the film a deep mostly, though, the last samurai aims for, and achieves, epic sweep: Tom cruise, ken watanabe, william atherton and others.