The war- and campaign-hardened Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) seems to have lost sight of the meaning of life. He once fought in Antietam (Maryland) and Gettysburg (Virginia), returning victorious ...

Aaron and Matthew Benay claimed that their script, also called "The Last Samurai," was submitted in 2000 by their agent to the production company run by Herskovitz and Zwick, and was later used as a ...

There's no debate as to how much 2003's The Last Samurai pushed the narrative of the "white savior" of a foreign culture. However, as far as its value in the long term is something that can be ...

Ken Watanabe is having the last word on “The Last Samurai.” After the 2003 film, inspired by a true story, was criticized for perpetuating the white savior stereotype with Tom Cruise’s U.S. Army ...

Ask Martin Scorsese who his favourite superhero is and he’ll probably say Tom Cruise. Last year, the filmmaker credited the actor for “saving Hollywood’s ass” with Top Gun: Maverick, thanks to its sky ...