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 ) . In the 2000s , Cruise starred in a number of successful films , including the science fiction thrillers Vanilla Sky ( 2001 ) and Minority Report ( 2002 ) , the epic war film The Last Samurai ( 2003 ) , the crime film Collateral ( 2004 ) , the science fiction disaster thriller War of the Worlds ( 2005 ) , and the historical thriller Valkyrie ( 2008 ) . 16 of his films grossed over $ 100 million domestically ; 22 have grossed in excess of $ 200 million worldwide .