Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Ken Watanabe, Tony Goldwyn, Togo Igawa, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shichinosuke Nakamura, Shin Koyamada, Koyuki
Director
Edward Zwick
Year
2003
Category
Action, Drama, War
Language
Original, French, English
Subtitles
French
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.