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Summary:
Captain Nathan Algren is a man adrift. The battles he once fought now seem
distant and futile. Once he risked his life for honor and country, but, in the
years since the Civil War, the world has changed. Pragmatism has replaced
courage, self-interest has taken the place of sacrifice and honor is nowhere to
be found--especially out West where his role in the Indian Campaigns ended in
disillusionment and sorrow. Somewhere on the unforgiving plains near the banks
of the Washita River, Algren lost his soul. A universe away, another soldier
sees his way of life about to disintegrate. He is Katsumoto, the last leader of
an ancient line of warriors, the venerated Samurai, who dedicated their lives to
serving emperor and country. Just as the modern way encroached upon the American
West, cornering and condemning the Native American, it also engulfed traditional
Japan. The telegraph lines and railroads that brought progress now threaten
those values and codes by which the Samurai have lived and died for centuries.
But Katsumoto will not go without a fight. The paths of these two warriors
converge when the young Emperor of Japan, wooed by American interests who covet
the growing Japanese market, hires Algren to train Japan's first modern,
conscript army. But as the Emperor's advisors attempt to eradicate the Samurai
in preparation for a more Westernized and trade-friendly government, Algren
finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the
Samurai. Their powerful convictions remind him of the man he once was. Thrust
now into harsh and unfamiliar territory, with his life and perhaps more
important, his soul, in the balance, the troubled American soldier finds himself
at the center of a violent and epic struggle between two eras and two worlds,
with only his sense of honor to guide him.
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Box Office Info:
Cast:
Tom Cruise (as Nathan Algren)
Ken Watanabe (as Katsumoto)
Billy Connolly (as Sgt. Zebulah Grant)
Shin Koyamada (as Nobutada)
Tony Goldwyn (as Col. Benjamin Bagly)
Directed By: Edward Zwick
Written By: Marshall Herskovitz & John Logan
Produced By: Warner Brothers
Release Date (US): December 5, 2003
Length of Movie: 2h 24min
Budget: $100,000,000
Opening Weekend: $24,271,354
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The Last Samurai Soundtrack
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1. A Way Of Life
2. Spectres In The Fog
3. Taken
4. A Hard Teacher
5. To Know My Enemy
6. Idyll's End
7. Safe Passage
8. Ronin
9. Red Warrior
10. The Way Of The Sword
11. A Small Measure Of Peace
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