The Last Samurai

Warner Home Video, 15, £22.99/£16.99

Tom Cruise as a wannabe samurai sounds like a terrible idea, but actually this is very watchable.

Cruise is an embittered Civil War veteran recruited to train the Japanese army to fight against the ragged remains of the samurai.

He is captured by samurai leader Ken Watanabe and swiftly finds a spiritual home with these noble (if unrealistic) warriors.

The ending's a fudge, but the rest is good, with jabs at American heavyhandedness surprising in a $100million Cruise vehicle. Two-disc set with great extras.