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 was recently added to Prime Video's ranks for the new year. Cruise stars as Nathan Algren, an American Civil War captain who is hired by the Japanese government to modernize the ...

Movies tend to make a hash of history, and the best you can usually hope for is that the hash will be flavorful. “The Last Samurai” has as much to do with real 19th century Japan as “Gone ...

Ghost of Tsushima' gave us Assassin’s Creed in Japan, years before the franchise would catch up and actually give the fans ...

“The Last Samurai” isn’t a star vehicle; it’s a star tricycle. Tom Cruise plays a disillusioned, booze-sozzled Civil War vet, circa 1876, hired out to teach the eager-to-Westernize ...

The notion of the thoroughly modern Tom Cruise in a period piece may strike some as a mission impossible: The last time he went historically epic was in 1992’s blah immigrant ode ”Far and Away ...

The Last Samurai, a sweeping Hollywood epic, tells the story of Katsumoto, a rebel samurai who dedicates his life to fighting the forces he believes are corrupting Japan’s traditional values.

Cruise stars as a Civil War hero in late 19th century Japan. By John Hartl. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Mifune is perhaps the only iconic Japanese actor to achieve international fame, and for a period in the 50s and 60s, he was the biggest movie star in Japan, thanks largely to a series of samurai ...