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Anthony Howard " Tony " Goldwyn ( born May ___MASK28___ , ___MASK10___ ) is an American actor , producer , director and political activist . He portrayed Carl Bruner in " Ghost ", Colonel Bagley in " The Last Samurai ", and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated film " Tarzan ". He stars in the ABC drama " Scandal ", as Fitzgerald Grant III , President of the United States . Wine Road of The Samurai is a feature film based on a true story about a delegation of 34 samurai to Europe in ___MASK61___ . It was directed by Sone Eiji and starred Shin Koyamada as himself and the narrator . This national TV show was first aired throughout Japan on March 21 , 2006 . Koyamada is well known for co - starring as  Nobutada  opposite Tom Cruise in the Warner Bros . action epic war film " The Last Samurai ", with a worldwide box office of $ 456 million as well as starring in the action - adventure Disney Channel Original Movie "". Koyamada has starred in the many other movies and television , including " The Yokai King ( ___MASK25___ )", " Heart of the Dragon ( ___MASK73___ )", " Ai No Shizuku " ( 2010 ), " Good Soil ", and " Wine Road of the Samurai " ( 2006 ). In 2005 , Koyamada founded Shinca Entertainment , an American production company that has produced numerous entertainment related projects in the US . He made his Broadway debut in ___MASK79___ in Lincoln Center Theater ' s revival production of " The King and I " in the title role ( opposite Kelli O ' Hara as Anna Leonowens ). In 2015 , Watanabe received his first Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical at the 69th Tony Awards for his role as The King . He is the first Japanese actor to be nominated in this category . Edward M . Zwick ( born October ___MASK88___ , ___MASK54___ ) is an American filmmaker and Academy Award - winning film and television producer . He has worked primarily in the comedy - drama and epic historical film genres , including " About Last Night , Glory , Legends of the Fall ," and " The Last Samurai ." Thomas Cruise Mapother IV ( born July ___MASK40___ , 1962 ), known professionally as Tom Cruise , is an American actor and producer . He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards . He started his career at age ___MASK52___ in the film " Endless Love " ( 1981 ). After portraying supporting roles in " Taps " ( 1981 ) and " The Outsiders " ( 1983 ), his first leading role was in the romantic comedy " Risky Business ", released in ___MASK75___ . Cruise became a full - fledged movie star after starring as Pete " Maverick " Mitchell in the action drama " Top Gun " ( ___MASK76___ ). One of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood , Cruise starred in several more successful films in the 1980s , including the dramas " The Color of Money " ( ___MASK76___ ), " Cocktail " ( ___MASK26___ ), " Rain Man " ( ___MASK26___ ), and " Born on the Fourth of July " ( 1989 ). Good Soil is a short film ( ___MASK47___ minutes ) written and directed by Craig Shimahara and starring Shin Koyamada from The Last Samurai . Disney Channel ( originally called The Disney Channel from ___MASK34___ to ___MASK93___ and commonly shortened to Disney from ___MASK93___ to 2002 ) is an American basic cable and satellite television network that serves as the flagship property of owner Disney Channels Television Group , itself a unit of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company . William " Billy " Connolly , ( born ___MASK80___ November ___MASK6___ ) is a Scottish comedian , musician , presenter , and actor . He is sometimes known , especially in his native Scotland , by the nickname " The Big Yin " (" The Big One "). His first trade , in the early 1960s , was as a welder ( specifically a boilermaker ) in the Glasgow shipyards , but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer , firstly in the Humblebums alongside friend Gerry Rafferty until ___MASK16___ , and subsequently as a solo artist . In the early 1970s , he made the transition from folk - singer with a comedic persona to fully fledged comedian . Best known to many as a stand - up comedian , he appears in several lists of the greatest comedians ever , where he is often placed at the top . Life and career . Sanada was born in Tokyo . Originally planning to be an action star , he studied Shorinji Kempo and later took up Kyokushin kaikan karate . Sanada began training at the age of ___MASK60___ with actor and martial arts star Sonny Chiba ' s Japan Action Club , where he developed good all - round martial arts ability , and soon became Chiba ' s protégé . Sanada ' s martial arts film career introduced him to Michelle Yeoh , with whom he later starred in Danny Boyle ' s " Sunshine ". He has a long - standing friendship with Jackie Chan , although he did not star in a film with him before " Rush Hour 3 " in ___MASK62___ . Sanada was often credited in his younger days as Henry , Harry , or Duke Sanada . Timothy Leonard Spall , OBE ( born ___MASK24___ ___MASK56___ ) is an English character actor and occasional presenter . He became a household name in the UK after appearing in the 1983 ITV comedy - drama series " Auf Wiedersehen , Pet ". In Japanese , they are usually referred to as or . According to translator William Scott Wilson : " In Chinese , the character  was originally a verb meaning " to wait upon " or " accompany persons " in the upper ranks of society , and this is also true of the original term in Japanese , saburau . In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean " those who serve in close attendance to the nobility ", the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai . According to Wilson , an early reference to the word " samurai " appears in the Kokin Wakash ( ___MASK46___  914 ), the first imperial anthology of poems , completed in the first part of the 10th century . Marshall Schreiber Herskovitz ( born February ___MASK29___ , ___MASK54___ ) is an American film director , writer and producer , and currently the President Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America . Among his productions are " Traffic ", " The Last Samurai ", " Blood Diamond ", and " I Am Sam ". Herskovitz has directed two feature films , " Jack the Bear " and " Dangerous Beauty ". Herskovitz was a creator and executive producer of the television shows " thirtysomething ", " My So - Called Life ", and " Once and Again ", and also wrote and directed several episodes of all three series . The Last Samurai is a ___MASK41___ American epic historical war film directed and co - produced by Edward Zwick , who also co - wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz . The film stars Tom Cruise , who also co - produced , with Timothy Spall , Ken Watanabe , Billy Connolly , Tony Goldwyn , Hiroyuki Sanada , Koyuki , and Shin Koyamada in supporting roles .