The Last Samurai

Name: The Last Samurai
Director: Edward Zwick
Genre: Drama, Action, War
Released: 2003

Edward Zwick • 154 min • 2003

DramaActionWar

“In the face of an enemy, in the heart of one man, lies the soul of a warrior.”

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Synopsis

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.