Set against the backdrop of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, the film follows the journey of Captain Nathan Algren (played brilliantly by Tom Cruise), a disillusioned American Civil War veteran. Algren is hired by the Japanese government to train their newly formed army in Western warfare techniques. However, fate leads him to the samurai, a group fiercely resisting modernization.
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