The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai is a 2003 film with Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe. See the storyline, runtime (154 minutes) and complete cast list on 123movies. 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.