The Last Samurai
by Edward Zwick
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Actor: Billy Connolly, Chad Lindberg, Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, William AthertonDirector: Edward Zwick
Producer: Edward Zwick
Writer: Edward Zwick
Producer: Charles Mulvehill
Producer: Graham Larson
Producer: Marshall Herskovitz
Writer: Marshall Herskovitz
Writer: John Logan
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: German (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Dolby Digital 5.1; German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Swedish (Subtitled); Danish (Subtitled); Finnish (Subtitled); Icelandic (Subtitled); Hebrew (Subtitled); Arabic (Subtitled); Greek (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 154 minutes
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Summary of The Last Samurai
While Japan undergoes tumultuous transition to a more Westernized society in 1876-77, The Last Samurai gives epic sweep to an intimate story of cultures at a crossroads. In America, tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is coerced by a mercenary officer (Tony Goldwyn) to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this "progress" is a rebellion of samurai warriors, holding fast to their traditions of honor despite strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader (Ken Watanabe), Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's honor to the ultimate test. All of which makes director Edward Zwick's noble epic eminently worthwhile, even if its Hollywood trappings (including an all-too-conventional ending) prevent it from being the masterpiece that Zwick and screenwriter John Logan clearly wanted it to be. Instead, The Last Samurai is an elegant mainstream adventure, impressive in all aspects of its production. It may not engage the emotions as effectively as Logan's script for Gladiator, but like Cruise's character, it finds its own quality of honor. --Jeff ShannonSimilar DVD Movies
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