| WATANABE | Japanese actor of The Last Samurai and inception. Ken - (8) |
| SANADA | Japanese actor of The Wolverine and 47 Ronin, Hiroyuki - (6) |
| CRUISE | Tom ___, Hollywood A-lister whose films include Top Gun, The Last Samurai and Minority Report (6) |
| EPICS | "The Last Samurai" and others |
| LEONARDO | - DiCaprio, The Great Gatsby and Inception actor (8) |
| KUROSAWA | Influential Japanese director of Seven Samurai and Ran |
| KENWATANABE | Academy Award-nominated Japanese actor whose films include The Last Samurai, Inception, Batman Beings, Godzilla and Letters From Iwo Jima (3,8) |
| HARAKIRI | Act in "The Last Samurai" |
| KEN | Actor Watanabe of "The Last Samurai" |
| TOM | Cruise of 'The Last Samurai' |
| KENDO | With its origins in the tradition of the samurai and meaning "way of the sword", a Japanese martial art and form of fencing using bamboo staves (5) |
| TOMCRUISE | Star of the 2003 film "The Last Samurai": 2 wds. |
| EDO | ___ Period, depicted in "The Last Samurai" |
| EPIC | "Gladiator," "The Last Samurai," or "Braveheart" |
| ASANO | Japanese actor who plays Hogun the Grim in the Thor films, Tadanobu - (5) |
| ZIMMER | German film composer whose works include the scores to The Lion King, The Dark Knight and Inception (6) |
| DREAMS | "The Wizard of Oz" and "Inception" settings |
| NINJAS | "The Last Samurai" extras |
| DEWITT | "The Last Samurai" author |
| JAPAN | Setting for "The Last Samurai" |
