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Cast and crew

The Last Samurai

Directed by Edward Zwick · starring Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise and William Atherton

15 actors
5 in the crew
2003
2 h 34 min

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The Last Samurai: cast and crew

Director

Edward Zwick 51 at release Also in Love and other drugs (2010)

Actors and characters

Actors: 15
Crew: 5
Youngest at release: 13 yearsSôsuke Ikematsu
Eldest at release: 61 yearsScott Wilson

Ken Watanabe Katsumoto 44 at release Also in Inception (2010)
Tom Cruise Nathan Algren 41 at release Also in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)
William Atherton Winchester Rep 56 at release Also in Ghostbusters (1984)
Chad Lindberg Winchester Rep Assistant 27 at release Also in The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Billy Connolly Zebulon Gant 61 at release Also in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Tony Goldwyn Colonel Bagley 43 at release Also in Divergent (2014)
Timothy Spall Simon Graham 46 at release Also in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (2011)
Seizô Fukumoto † 2021 Silent Samurai 60 at release Also in 13 Assassins (2010)
Togo Igawa General Hasegawa 57 at release Also in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

The whole cast 15

Crew

Writers 3

Music 1

Hans Zimmer 46 at release Also in Ennio: The Maestro (2021)

Producers 3

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Companies

Production companies: Warner Bros. Pictures

Questions about the cast of The Last Samurai

Who plays Katsumoto in The Last Samurai?: Ken Watanabe plays Katsumoto.
Who plays Nathan Algren in The Last Samurai?: Tom Cruise plays Nathan Algren.
Who plays Winchester Rep in The Last Samurai?: William Atherton plays Winchester Rep.
Who plays Winchester Rep Assistant in The Last Samurai?: Chad Lindberg plays Winchester Rep Assistant.
Who plays Zebulon Gant in The Last Samurai?: Billy Connolly plays Zebulon Gant.
Who plays Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai?: Tony Goldwyn plays Colonel Bagley.
Who directed The Last Samurai?: Edward Zwick.
Who wrote The Last Samurai?: John Logan, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.
Who composed the music for The Last Samurai?: Hans Zimmer.
How many actors are in The Last Samurai?: 15 actors are credited, and 5 people in the crew.

The cast in numbers

Edward Zwick has also directed Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016).
Hiroyuki Sanada and Togo Igawa have worked together on 2 other films: 47 Ronin (2013) and Speed Racer (2008).
Tom Cruise and William Atherton have worked together on one other film: Spielberg (2017).
Ken Watanabe and Togo Igawa have worked together on one other film: Memoirs of a geisha (2005).
Hiroyuki Sanada and Ken Watanabe have worked together on one other film: The Railway Man (2013).
Timothy Spall and Billy Connolly have worked together on one other film: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
With the most films on MovieNCo: Tom Cruise (55), Timothy Spall (46) and Tony Goldwyn (23).
The cast’s average age at release is 42 (of the 14 actors whose birth date we know).

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