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"The Last Samurai" DVD
DVD Release Date: May 4, 2004

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Length: 154 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and battle sequences

Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe star in this epic set in 19th-century Japan. Cruise plays American Civil War veteran Nathan Algren, who is hired to work for the Japanese emperor in putting down samurai uprisings. But Algren is captured and eventually bonds with the samurai leader Katsumoto (Watanabe). When Algren realizes he sympathizes more with the samurai than with the emperor's mercenaries, he must make some major decisions.

~ Ivana Redwine

Selected Special DVD Features:

  • Two-Disc DVD Set

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