The Last Samurai is a 2003 American film directed by Edward Zwick. Tom Cruise stars as Nathan Algren, a veteran of The American Civil War and the campaigns ...

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The Last Samurai refers to all those samurai who fought in the climatic battle, not Nathan Algren. To be fair, the marketing seems to have done this ...

The tension of a meal with the woman whose husband he just learned he had killed is broken for the audience by one of her children making faces at Algren.

The book was a best-seller in the west, but was largely rejected in Japan at the time of release for its inaccuracies and its romantization of a past which ...