The Last Samurai (Widescreen Edition)

Action, Drama

Ken Watanabe	Katsumoto
Tom Cruise	Nathan Algren
Billy Connolly	Zebulon Gant
Seizo Fukumoto
Tony Goldwyn	Colonel Bagley
Masato Harada	Omura
Sosuke Ikematsu
Shin Koyamada
Aoi Minato
Shichinosuke Nakamura
Hiroyuki Sanada
William Atherton	Winchester Rep
Chad Lindberg	Winchester Rep Assistant
Ray Godshall Sr.	Convention Hall Attendee
Masashi Odate	Omura's Companion
John Koyama	Omura's Bodyguard

Director	Edward Zwick
Producer	Tom Cruise; Tom Engelman
Writer	Marshall Herskovitz; John Logan

Tom Cruise plays Civil War hero Capt. Nathan Algren, who comes to Japan to fight the Samurai and ends up pledging himself to their cause. Ken Watanabe (Academy Award nominee) plays Katsumoto, a Samurai leader facing a vanishing way of life, whose destiny becomes intertwined with that of the American captain. Edward Zwick (winner of the National Board of Review's Best Director Award) directs this sweeping and emotional epic tale of the birth of modern Japan.