Never-Before-Seen Footage From The Last Samurai

Warner Bros. Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with a first look at never-before-seen footage from Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai. You can view the great-looking 2 1/2 minute clip in QuickTime, Windows Media and Real formats here!

After examining the ravages of 19th century America in his Academy Award-winning Civil War drama Glory, director Edward Zwick explores the birth of modern Japan in this sweeping epic set in Japan during the 1870s. Tom Cruise stars as Capt. Nathan Algren, a respected American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the Emperor attempts to eradicate the ancient Imperial Samurai warriors in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly government policies, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai, which places him at the center of a struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his own sense of honor to guide him.