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.
$140,000,000
$456,800,000
December 5, 2003
Radar Pictures, Bedford Falls Productions
48 people
Tom Cruise
Nathan Algren
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Ken Watanabe
Moritsugu Katsumoto
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Timothy Spall
Simon Graham
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Tony Goldwyn
Col. Benjamin Bagley
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Hiroyuki Sanada
Ujio
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Koyuki
Taka
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Shin Koyamada
Nobutada
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Billy Connolly
Zebulon Gant
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Togo Igawa
General Hasegawa
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Shichinosuke Nakamura
Emperor Meiji
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Masato Harada
Omura
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William Atherton
Winchester Rep
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