Cruise to slice up SAMURAI
February 25th, 2002
Tom Cruise is set to join SIEGE producer-director Ed Zwick in THE LAST SAMURAI, a 19th-Century epic about the eradication of the samurai in Japan.
Variety describes the story as: Cruise will play a colonial who arrives in Japan to train the troops of the Japanese emperor, a new occurrence given that feudal lords employed samurai warriors to protect their territories. As the country dishonors and then systematically wipes out the samurai, the protagonist gets to witness closeup the honor and contradictions of the warriors.
-- D.M.
(Source: Variety)
Variety describes the story as: Cruise will play a colonial who arrives in Japan to train the troops of the Japanese emperor, a new occurrence given that feudal lords employed samurai warriors to protect their territories. As the country dishonors and then systematically wipes out the samurai, the protagonist gets to witness closeup the honor and contradictions of the warriors.
-- D.M.
(Source: Variety)
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