Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
Tom Cruise
Ken Watanabe
Timothy Spall
Tony Goldwyn
Hiroyuki Sanada
Koyuki
Shin Koyamada
Billy Connolly
Togo Igawa
Shichinosuke Nakamura
Masato Harada
William Atherton
Chad Lindberg
Scott Wilson
Ray Godshall Sr.
Masashi Odate
John Koyama
Satoshi Nikaido
Shintaro Wada
Shun Sugata
Sosuke Ikematsu
Aoi Minato
Seizō Fukumoto
Shoji Yoshihara
Kosaburo Nomura IV
Takashi Noguchi
Noguchi Takayuki
Sven Toorvald
Yuki Matsuzaki
Mitsuyuki Oishi
Jiro Wada
Hiroshi Watanabe
Yusuke Myochin
Hiroaki Amano
Kenta Daibo
Koji Fujii
Makoto Hashiba
Shimpei Horinouchi
Takashi Kora
Shane Kosugi
Takeshi Maya
Seiji Morita
Lee Murayama
Takeru Shimizu
Shinji Suzuki
Hisao Takeda
Ryoichiro Yonekura
Ryoichi Noguchi