"The Last Samurai" is as rich in period and historical ... on the heels of Civil War service, Cruise’s Captain Nathan Algren is a disillusioned, drunken wreck, a paid spokesman for the ...

In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a ... their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded, Algren's courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto ...

Tom Cruise has built a career for himself running away from things in movies (oh, and a couple of death-defying stunts). But, imagine Tom Cruise running... with samurai swords. Before he flew away ...

premiered 'The Last Samurai' in Los Angeles ... We first encounter Cruise’s Capt. Nathan Algren as a somewhat cliched figure — a whiskey-soaked, self-pitying ex-soldier reduced to performing ...

It's a theory well-explored in "The Last Samurai." Directed by Edward Zwick ... soon after the end of the American Civil War, as Captain Nathan Algren (Cruise) heads to Japan to help the young ...

In the film, Cruise plays Nathan Algren, a former US Army captain ... combat (aka guns), to quash an uprising from the last remaining samurai. However, after being captured in battle by the ...

Although The Last Samurai took inspiration from real events ... Fans think that Captain Nathan Algren's character, portrayed by Tom Cruise was loosely based on a real-life soldier named Jules ...

Tom Cruise plays Nathan Algren, a boozing officer disillusioned ... and the great cinematographer John Toll turns action into poetry, The Last Samurai emerges as a haunting silent movie.

Nathan Algren, starts out inert ... Algren defies the inevitable victor’s vast legions and fights to the last samurai. I KNOW MOVIES aren’t obligated to be historically correct, but Zwick ...

In The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise ... his public persona to become each character), Cruise turns Capt. Nathan Algren into an approximation, a model, an avatar of a Western-born ...