TY - ADVS AU - Zwick,Edward AU - Logan,John AU - Herskowitz,Marshall ED - Warner Bros. Pictures TI - The last samurai PY - 2004/// CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Home Video N1 - Title from title screen; Subtitles in English, Chinese, English Narrative and Malay; Executive producer, Ted Field...[et al.] ; screenplay by John Logan, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz; Cast: Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, William Atherton N2 - Civil war hero Nathan Algren is sent to Japan during the Meiji era in order to train troops to use firearms against the samurai. Soon Algren finds himself swept up in the samurai way of life after being captured by their leader ER -