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Certificate 15

Cast Tom Cruise Ken Watanabe Timothy Spall Billy Connolly Tony Goldwyn

Directors Edward Zwick

Screenwriters John Logan Edward Zwick Marshall Herskovitz

Running Time 154 minutes

The Last Samurai
Cruise learns the way of the samurai.

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Plot
American Captain Nathan Algren, haunted by his role in the Indian Campaigns, is recruited to train an army fighting the 1877 samurai rebellion in Japan. But when captured by samurai leader Katsumoto, he embarks on a journey of redemption.

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