Samurai Bows Before Its Star; Tom Cruise blends history with Bushido honor code in epic drama.

Coast weekly | December 10, 2003| | Copyright

After his last film, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, Tom Cruise spent a year preparing for his most physically challenging role yet, that of American Civil War Officer Captain Nathan Algren for Ed Zwick's The Last Samurai. After being hired to train a regiment of the Japanese Army for the Emperor of Japan, Algren is captured by Samurai and tutored to live as they do. Algren eventually learns to value "life in every breath" and finds that his inner nature is more in harmony with the Samurai than his previous path as a mercenary. Part fantasy and part historical touchstone, The Last Samurai ...

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