

The Last Samurai
In the face of an enemy, in the heart of one man, lies the soul of a warrior.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $140M
- Box office
- $456.8M
- Language
- English
- japan
- samurai
- swordplay
- general
- sense of guilt
- war veteran
- sword
- war crimes
- loss of loved one
- self-discovery
- arms deal
- homeland
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United States of America
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Digital / OTT4 Oct 2017
United StatesUS
- Premiere1 Dec 2003
- TheatricalR5 Dec 2003
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical159 Jan 2004
United Arab EmiratesAE
- PhysicalDVD7 Aug 2006
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+15 Jan 2004
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A5 Dec 2003
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical22 Jan 2004
AustriaAT
- Theatrical9 Jan 2004
BahrainBH
- Theatrical3 Mar 2004
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1814 Jan 2004
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1416 Jan 2004
ChileCL
- Theatrical16 Jan 2004
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The Last Samurai was released on 5 December 2003.
Audience reviews
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TopKek
11/10/2016
Edward Zwick's "The Last Samurai" is about two warriors whose cultures make them aliens, but whose values make them comrades. The battle scenes are stirring and elegantly mounted, but they are less about who wins than about what can be proven by dying. Beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic. Its power is compromised only by an ending that sheepishly back…
- R8/10
r96sk
8/18/2020
Recommended. <em>'The Last Samurai'</em> features some very cool and entertaining battle sequences, which are shot excellently. The premise itself is attracting, it's acted out astutely by the noteworthy cast list. It probably lasts too long, but I never truly got a feeling of it dragging out though. Tom Cruise is fantastic as Capt. Nathan Algren. It's no secret or surprise as we all know that guy can act, he a…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/3/2023
"Nathan Algren" (Tom Cruise) is a disenchanted, alcoholic Captain who, post American Civil War, is offered the chance of a fresh, lucrative, start in Japan training some raw recruits to form the basis a standing Imperial Army. He arrives and is presented to the young, forward-looking but somewhat intimidated Meiji Emperor and it subsequently becomes clear that his purpose is primarily to assist Ômura, the Prime Minis…
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