House of Zwick - 172 - The Last Samurai

Published: March 14, 2024, 3:21 p.m.

Set against the backdrop of Japan\u2019s Meiji Restoration, the film follows the journey of Captain Nathan Algren (played brilliantly by Tom Cruise), a disillusioned American Civil War veteran. Algren is hired by the Japanese government to train their newly formed army in Western warfare techniques. However, fate leads him to the samurai, a group fiercely resisting modernization.