Directed by Edward Zwick, the film has garnered a strong fan base since its release in 2003, and new audiences are about to discover it as The Last Samurai has landed a new streaming home.

Watanabe earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Samurai leader Katsumoto who fights alongside Cruise’s prisoner of war to curb the Westernization of 19th century Japan. “The Last ...

Wounded, Nathan is captured and witnesses the victors behead the losing general. Taken to a mountain ... armor and rides with Katsumoto to the samurai's last stand. Reminiscent of the spectacular ...

December 2003 saw the release of director Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai, a sweeping epic charting the end of Meiji-era Japan and the extinction of a noble band of warriors. Teeming with ...

Discussions of The Last Samurai often focus on the obvious incongruity of a movie where Tom Cruise dons samurai armor to become the steward of traditional Japanese culture. The picture of Cruise ...

The Imperial Omura (Masato Harada) cabinet's first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai, hereditary warriors, who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty, but reject the ...

Most likely the first example of the anime form being used for a documentary, “Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai” is ... Japanese military tactics in general. Humor generally tends ...

When preparing for his role in “The Last Samurai,” Sanada helped instruct co-star Tom Cruise in wearing a kimono and wielding a sword. While playing an android samurai on HBO’s “Westworld ...

Netflix has unveiled its Japanese content slate for 2025, headlined by “Last Samurai Standing,” a period drama featuring 300 samurai warriors gathered at Tenryuji Temple in Kyoto, lured by the ...

“The Last Samurai,” which has nothing to do with the Tom Cruise movie of the same name, is as good as everyone says. By Amanda Taub Until a few weeks ago, when The New York Times's list of the ...