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.
Rated R | Length 154 minutes
Tom Cruise | Tony Goldwyn | Ken Watanabe | Scott Wilson | William Atherton | Chad Lindberg | Billy Connolly | Shichinosuke Nakamura | Koyuki | Timothy Spall | Togo Igawa | Shun Sugata | Shin Koyamada | Hiroyuki Sanada | Satoshi Nikaido | Hiroshi Watanabe | Masato Harada | Yuki Matsuzaki | John Koyama | Takeshi Maya | Seizô Fukumoto | Seiji Morita | Masashi Odate | Shane Kosugi | Shinji Suzuki | Shintaro Wada | Sôsuke Ikematsu | Aoi Minato | Shoji Yoshihara | Ray Godshall Sr. | Kosaburo Nomura IV | Takashi Noguchi | Noguchi Takayuki | Sven Toorvald | Mitsuyuki Oishi | Jiro Wada | Yusuke Myochin | Hiroaki Amano | Kenta Daibo | Koji Fujii | Makoto Hashiba | Shimpei Horinouchi | Takashi Kora | Lee Murayama | Takeru Shimizu | Hisao Takeda | Ryoichiro Yonekura | Ryoichi Noguchi