Tom Cruise was in a film.
The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic historical war film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick , who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz . Tom Cruise . He started his career at age 19 in the film Endless Love ( 1981 ) . Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring as Pete `` Maverick '' Mitchell in the action drama Top Gun ( 1986 ) .