A Go Samurai occurs as film released in the United States on December 5, 2003. These are placed in the 1870s in Japan and stars:

Tom Cruise as Captain Nathan Algren, an Indian Wars veteran with the preference for languages and ingesting alcohol Ken Watanabe as samurai Lord Katsumoto Masato Harada as industrialist and pro-reform politician Omura Shichinosuke Nakamura as Emperor Meiji Hiroyuki Sanada as Ujio, one of the virtually all dedicated & vicious samurai Timothy Spall as Simon Graham, a British translator for Capt. Algren & his non-Japanese speaking soldiers Shin Koyamada as Nobutada Seizo Fukumoto as the Silent Samurai Koyuki as Taka Billy Connolly as Zebulon Gant

General information
A film's plot is very loosely according to a 1877 Satsuma Rebellion led by Saigo Takamori, and as well on the story of Jules Brunet, a French army captain world health organization fought alongside Enomoto Takeaki in the Boshin War. A roles of Britain & France come largely portrayed when U.s.a. actions, & characters in the film & the rattling story come oversimplified. Although these are non the good source of historical tools, a film does succeed within on occasionally major issues for Japan at a period & is considered a an expert case of the Hollywood Epic.

Algren, a disenchanted army captain (another time under the command of George Custer), travels to Japan to help the recently Meiji government within expert training videos its foremost American-style army, whose number one project is to crush the rebellion existence led by Katsumoto, the samurai & leader of a little kin group. Algren leads a army into battle against Katsumoto's men, is routed & captured, & is imprisoned inside Katsumoto's isolated village. When there, Algren begins to see of the code of bushido and through this, he has an epiphany and becomes a samurai. A flick's climax occurs as a rebel cavalry charge is stopped by Gatling guns.

Although numbers of of the film's cast members come Japanese, a production crew is totally Western, & virtually all of the picture show was filmed around New Zealand.

Due to the fact that "samurai" (prefer virtually all Japanese words) does not have a plural form, several mistakenly assumed that Algren was a "Last Samurai" of the title.