Tom Cruise is a daredevil star who loves doing his own stunts. Be it jumping from one building to another or riding off a cliff, or even climbing to the top of the Burj Khalifa, the ‘Misson: Impossible’ has made many impossible scenes possible and sustained several injuries filming them. But did you know he once almost lost his neck while shooting a scene involving a sword?While filming the 2003 epic period action drama, The Last Samurai, Cruise opted to do his stunts himself instead of a body double substituting. Many of the scenes went as planned, but the one involving swords and riding mechanical horses almost has him beheaded. Read on to know the whole incident and what Tom and the other actor involved in the scene, Hiroyuki Sanada, had to say about it.