Produced by Radar Pictures/Bedford Falls Company/Cruise-Wagner; filmed by Edward Zwick; music by Hans Zimmer; edited by Steven Rosenblum and Victor duBois; production designer Lilly Kilvert; director of photography John Toll; executive producers Ted Field, Richard Solomon, Vincent Ward, Charles Mulvehill; produced by Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick, Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner, Scott Kroopf, Tom Engelman; story by John Logan; screenplay by John Logan, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz; directed by Edward Zwick. Produced by Radar Pictures/Bedford Falls Company/Cruise-Wagner; filmed by Edward Zwick; music by Hans Zimmer; edited by Steven Rosenblum and Victor duBois; production designer Lilly Kilvert; director of photography John Toll; executive producers Ted Field, Richard Solomon, Vincent Ward, Charles Mulvehill; produced by Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick, Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner, Scott Kroopf, Tom Engelman; story by John Logan; screenplay by John Logan, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz; directed by Edward Zwick.
Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada Koyuki.
Tom Cruise plays Civil War hero Capt. Nathan Algren, who comes to Japan to fight the Samurai and ends up pledging himself to their cause. Ken Watanabe (Academy Award nominee) plays Katsumoto, a Samurai leader facing a vanishing way of life, whose destiny becomes intertwined with that of the American captain. Edward Zwick (winner of the National Board of Review's Best Director Award) directs this sweeping and emotional epic tale of the birth of modern Japan.
Rated R for strong violence and battle sequences.
DVD; widescreen.
In English & French with English, French, & Spanish subtitles.