Pukekura Park - Cricket grounds
The Last Samurai (2003)
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SCENE
Nathan Algren trains the Japanese army.
ADDRESS
10 Fillis St, Brooklands, New Plymouth 4310, New Zealand
LOCATION
-39.0688095092773, 174.083312988281
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Pukekura Park is a Garden covering 52ha near the heart of New Plymouth, Taranaki in New Zealand. Pukekura Park is also a popular events venue, with a cricket oval where Central Districts Stags cricket club play some home matches and the Bowl of Brooklands amphitheatre. In 2002, the cricket grounds of Pukekura Park were converted into a Japanese army camp, complete with tents, cannons and gatling guns.
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cricket, park
ACTORS
Tom Cruise
SYNOPSIS
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
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ADDRESS
10 Fillis St, Brooklands, New Plymouth 4310, New Zealand
LOCATION
-39.0688095092773, 174.083312988281
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