Imagine the training it took all those horses to go through to not freak out or falter on every explosion. Both in a real battlefield and on this movie set.
God I love this movie. I feel like it doesn’t get the attention and appreciation that it deserves. I don’t care that it may not be completely accurate. Ken Wantanabe and Tom Cruise crush it here. This is filmmaking at its finest. Beautiful and thought provoking while still being entertaining. It may be a cliche thing to say, but they really don’t make epic films like this anymore. Hollywood now is all superhero movies and remakes. When I first watched it I kind of rolled my eyes seeing Tom Cruise in samurai armor, thinking this was gonna be another white savior movie. But it wasn’t like that at all. Algren didn’t swoop in and save Japanese culture, Japanese culture saved him. And Algren wasn’t the last samurai, Katsumoto was. One of my favorite films of all time and Tom Cruise’s greatest dramatic performance imo.
this is my favorite scene even thought the best part is cut out. you learn a lot about japan's history by watching it.that's why it's my favorite movie.
Fact is, a similar thing happened in the battle this scene is inspired from. They charged straight into Imperial infantry lines using sabers because they were utterly out of ammunition. As it happens, the field allowed them to get close enough to do real damage to the imperial army. Once in melee range the rebel samurai had the upper hand until they were finally defeated - the infantry wasn't trained for close quarter traditional combat. Those bayonets weren't much use against trained warriors. The real battle was less heroic though. The brave samurai were encircled from all side, and got bombarded WWI style. 7000+ artillery shells on their last position. That mowed down almost all of them. Roughly 40 men remained, and the leader, the "Last Honorable Samurai" had been crippled by the fierce bombings. Committed hara-kiri, and then his last living men charged the 30k+ infantry at their gates. Honor bound not to surrender, and forced into a charge by the relentless bombings. The Imperial General leading the attack had been outmanouvered one too many times on the field by the samurai, so even though he had a gigantic advantage he chose not to risk anything. No storming their position. Just shelling them until they were dust (it is estimated that they had expended roughly half the artillery ammunitions by the time of the final samurai charge). Cornered and without hope, and honor bound to fight to the bitter end, they rode straight into the infantry lines. However, the Imperial General expected them to do so. The field was fully trapped. Even so, some managed to live long enough to cut down a few dozen of infantrymen. It's the best they could have done.
This film is a blend of the Boshin and Seinan wars. The place where the real last Samurai - SaigonTakamori - made his last stand is in Kagoshima, Kyushu.
@Justinian43 This movie is a work of fiction. The real life rebellion this movie was based off was very different. For the samurai did use guns. The samurai that were rebelling against the emperor at that time had modern firearms of the period. It was only after that they ran out of ammo and got surrounded were they forced to fall back their swords and spears. The result was they were all but massacred by artillery and rifle fire. Before that it turns out that the samurai had quite the effective musket units. In 1543 the Portuguese introduced the matchlock musket to Japan and it was adopted with glee. This movie operates under the delusion that the samurai never embraced advancements in technology and never used because guns because "guns are dishonorable" bullshit trope.
I know your comment is incredibly old, but I just wanted to say something. I once heard a guy telling that the line "he doesn't dishonor himself by using guns anymore" that is heard in the movie could very well mean that Katsumoto did in fact use them during the war and ran out of ammo, but instead of admitting that he declared that guns were dishonorable, as kind of a propaganda trick. It may be only an interpretation, but why not?
@@AdrianCelsiusTepes they also rarely used kitanas on the battlefield, and probably never from horseback. Prefering bows, pole arms, and blunt weapons.
This is why I'm so fascinated by the samurai. I mean just look at the this and the fog battle. Samurai were intended to be intimidating and even the bravest soldiers would be nervous to see that many samurai like in the fog battle just don't bother to attack. It's useless.
I believe one of the reasons that they did torture was that they did not understand why massive armies would surrender, like the British did in World War 2, the largest surrender being after the Battle of Singapore. I believe that the Japanese in WW2 still had a large sense of honour, and they believed in death before surrender, any way possible. I's likely that the reason lots of them tortured because of them disliking people who would surrender dishonourably.
The background for the period of the movie [History] is incorrect. For example, the Japanese soldiers' armor and costumes in this movie are from the late 16th century, not the late 19th century (at that time from the end of the Tokugawa period to the beginning of the Meiji period). In addition, Westerners like the word "samurai", but in Japan at that time, it was more popular to call it "bushi", "buke", "bujin", "bumon" instead of "samurai".
Ok I cant be the only one..why the cannons firing sound more...bass? Its much different from the start of the battle where they kinda sounded..hollow? Anyone else think so?
Keep in mind this Hollywood. They rarely think about strategy, tactics, the advancements in weaponry, and try to depict things in real fashion. Truth be told the fact that the Imperial soldiers have bolt action rifles takes away most of the need for the old Napoleon volley fire formation. Heck even though they are single shot bolt actions they're still better and have a higher rate of fire than the muzzle loading rifle. Or better yet why didn't they advance the Gatling guns forward. Their rate of fire would've crushed the formation from the get go. They could've also divided the infantry and place them on the hills to provide long range rifle fire in support of the Gatling guns. Let's be honest the volley fire that is done with historical period films like this looks on great on camera and wows the audience. That's would be my guess why the producers did they did with the battle sequence this way or it could part of the story in order to show the arrogance and short sidedness of new leaders in Japan. Namely how they're relying solely on firepower as opposed to proper leadership, tactics, and strategy.
Square would work just as well here as it did in the Napoleonic wars for the simple reason that a horse will in almost all circumstances refuse to charge into a wall of spikes such as a line of bayonets, on that matter square would possibly not be the best formation for the infantry here since they are not out numbered by the horses and square would only allow a quarter of the infantry to fire where as a line would allow everyone to fire and in reality the horses would not be too keen to charge the wall of bayonets.
@corsair831 This is loosely based off of The battle of Shiroyama In real life the last charge was done with less than 400 men, against a force of 30 000. The charge happened after receiving WEEKS of artillery bombardment, they all planned on dying anyway. They charged the line and held for a few minutes, slaughtering everyone, until the greater numbers began to tell.
I think you don't understand what he means. He is talking about the undying spirit of the samurai not the samurai as a war unit. In WW2 there were some dudes known as Kamikaze and that is the last influence of the samurai spirit in action. Nowadays there are still people in Japan who are interested in these ideals so yeah the bombs didn't defeat the old samurai spirit. Japan hasn't completely lost its culture for some reason. That's what I think he is trying to say.
@chukie dannon, they weren't thinking about victory. They were aware that they were meeting their end and they seeked a good death on the battlefield. And these samurai refuse to own or use guns.
Pikes would have the edge over bayonets against cavalry. Spears, in general, are longer than your average rifle or musket, and the bayonet was better for close combat with foot soldiers.
if the samurai had a shorter distance then they could have had less losses edit: once they got to the front lines they could only be stopped by bayonets for muskets have no aim beyond point blank
I also admire their history and culture and these ideals. I'm not going to judge any American who enjoys this movie of course. But being a European myself I can see the differences between the western culture(and capitalism which is a big part of it) and the far east culture. In this movie you can see things that all we, who follow with our eyes closed the ideas of today's civilization, have forgotten...
Great movie overall, but this charge straight into soldiers with guns pointed at you didn't make sense. Why not divide the Samurais into 2 or 3 groups coming in from different directions? That would obviously cause some confusion in the enemy & probably give a better, although slim chance of victory
i don't think he claimed the samurai were present in WWII... and they still did believe in honour. every society kills rapes and tortures no matter what level of dignity they have... up until hiroshima the japanese still had no word for surrender in their language
exactly what I was thinking, like the samurai were literally archers first and foremost, swordsman second. one only drew a katana as a last ditch means of self defence, they would have stayed back and used archery (probably with better accuracy than early firearms as well) then they might have charged with spears since you know, charging with swords is actually an autistic idea on horseback. then maybe after they were in very close and had to dismount they might have drawn swords
you do know that samurai were nothing like they were shown in that video? pick up a history book, there were times in medieval japan when a samurai would kill a peasant just to try out his weapon...give people power and they will abuse it, that's how it always was and how it always will be, no matter where you are.
Ask a Navy Seal, I believe they are the only ones who could even partially grasp what it is to be samurai, make whatever hateful claims against the empire, they did many aweful things, but we all know the US is a perfect angel right...?
Honestly I always perfer guns but these samurai were the most fucking brave people I would never try to fight a army with guns when I have a fucking sword I would run away
Early bolt action rifles. They used flintlock firearms when Algren was training them, but they upgraded to early bolt action rifles during his stay in the village.
This movie takes place more after the pro-shogun forces had already fallen, and it wasn't imperials vs. samurai, samurai were on both sides of the conflict, hell samurai existed all the way up through WWII. Anyway the shogun forces had already been defeated even though they deployed modernized armies just the same, this movie is about the radical hold outs in northern japan that were still in rebellion even though the war was over (hint hint, the symmetry of nathans experience in the souix rebellions)
I've never heard about swords being thrown like javelins, only historical texts I've seen reguarding throwing swords is more akin to throwing them like an axe... But again why the heck would you want to throw your weapon away you don't see soldiers fixing bayonets and chucking their rifles at the enemy....
Charging even though the samurai know they'll lose. That's a lot of courage.
look up the battle of shiroyama, you might be even more impressed
yes it is
a lot of people wouldnt be able to do that
The Samurais did made a statement. This charge was the best battle movie scene.
Cullen Dittmar the samurai had an incredible lack of fear of death
Cullen Dittmar THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE
Imagine the training it took all those horses to go through to not freak out or falter on every explosion. Both in a real battlefield and on this movie set.
Theyre mechanical
@@PoffHistorythey are not
@@Downhomeherbwife Some are, check it.
このシーンマジで泣ける もうヤメテ～って泣きながら叫んでしまいました
渡辺謙さんの最後の姿が素晴らしい
Dammit, Movieclips. You cut right at the most powerful moment of the film.
"Fire at Will"
Soldiers - "Which one is Will!?"
Eradicator 44
hahahaha
Lol
Hahaha 😂
The white guy, probably
🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
“It's the last stand of the samurai
Surrounded and outnumbered
60 to 1, facing the gun
60 to 1, culture undone”
Shiroyama
Song by Sabaton
SHIROYAMA Man I am a huge Sabaton fan
God I love this movie. I feel like it doesn’t get the attention and appreciation that it deserves. I don’t care that it may not be completely accurate. Ken Wantanabe and Tom Cruise crush it here. This is filmmaking at its finest. Beautiful and thought provoking while still being entertaining. It may be a cliche thing to say, but they really don’t make epic films like this anymore. Hollywood now is all superhero movies and remakes. When I first watched it I kind of rolled my eyes seeing Tom Cruise in samurai armor, thinking this was gonna be another white savior movie. But it wasn’t like that at all. Algren didn’t swoop in and save Japanese culture, Japanese culture saved him. And Algren wasn’t the last samurai, Katsumoto was. One of my favorite films of all time and Tom Cruise’s greatest dramatic performance imo.
Well said.
Ikr!!!! This movie was a masterpiece! Absolutely one of Tom's greatest performances ever! It definitely deserved more credits.
Facts
1:51 Their General has fallen! A cutting blow!
I got the refference :p
DIS IS A BRACK DAY! OUR GENERAL HAS FARREN!
A cutting blou!
A CRUSHING blow. I do believe...
Earlier in the movie, Algren had noted that the General was the one person that Algren would be glad to kill for free.
No one talked about how brave those horses are.
That’s how war horses are trained to be
I like your name
They were Samurais themselves
Mechanical….
Hollywood: Samurai were too honorable for guns
Actual Samurai once they had guns: *so anyways I started blasting*
this movie is worth all its money the best movie i've seen in war has action and you're not tired of a perfect movie :)
At the beginning when Tom Cruise unsheathed his sword, that is a beautiful sound. Even though it wasn't real.
2:00 I think he's trying to say something.
This movie hits different once you learn the history of the samurai rebellion
The coolest part was at the end when the remaining army bowed to the dead samurai
Yes, it's also a symbol of honour & respect.
@@donpula6349plus the title hits a lot more harder… cuz Katsomodo and his men were the last samurai
@@donpula6349 wow that’s incredible!
A lot has happened back then and it’s mind blowing to me the more I learn and know.
0:11 one of the greatest sounds ever
0:10 **
The sound of the honor.
Nathan Algren, The First Weeabo
Technically not a weeaboo, but I still thumbed up your comment. :D
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke I think this guy might have been the first one
Maybe in a movie but he's not the 1st Japanoholic lol
dont kill the mood
this is my favorite scene even thought the best part is cut out. you learn a lot about japan's history by watching it.that's why it's my favorite movie.
GUN CAN NOT KILL ME! I HAVE GOD AND ANIME ON MY SIDE
Fact is, a similar thing happened in the battle this scene is inspired from.
They charged straight into Imperial infantry lines using sabers because they were utterly out of ammunition.
As it happens, the field allowed them to get close enough to do real damage to the imperial army. Once in melee range the rebel samurai had the upper hand until they were finally defeated - the infantry wasn't trained for close quarter traditional combat. Those bayonets weren't much use against trained warriors.
The real battle was less heroic though.
The brave samurai were encircled from all side, and got bombarded WWI style. 7000+ artillery shells on their last position. That mowed down almost all of them. Roughly 40 men remained, and the leader, the "Last Honorable Samurai" had been crippled by the fierce bombings. Committed hara-kiri, and then his last living men charged the 30k+ infantry at their gates. Honor bound not to surrender, and forced into a charge by the relentless bombings.
The Imperial General leading the attack had been outmanouvered one too many times on the field by the samurai, so even though he had a gigantic advantage he chose not to risk anything. No storming their position. Just shelling them until they were dust (it is estimated that they had expended roughly half the artillery ammunitions by the time of the final samurai charge).
Cornered and without hope, and honor bound to fight to the bitter end, they rode straight into the infantry lines.
However, the Imperial General expected them to do so. The field was fully trapped.
Even so, some managed to live long enough to cut down a few dozen of infantrymen. It's the best they could have done.
Yoshiko Chikuni anime?
Chuckie Damon There was no way they were going to win. They decided to go out with style instead.
They could win if they flanked cannons and gatlings with cavalry at their rear?
0:55- Gimme your war face!
Press 8 repeatedly for an example of how to ride a horse with style
This film is a blend of the Boshin and Seinan wars. The place where the real last Samurai - SaigonTakamori - made his last stand is in Kagoshima, Kyushu.
When I first saw this in theatres I cried when Katsumoto died and my friend made fun of me.
You are not alone. We watched this in our home theater together with my cousins and I saw one of them was crying.
Your friend has no soul
Hiroyuki Sanada looks really good with that long hair. Really good.
What a beast - am I right??!!?? My eyes are just drawn to him whenever he's in the scene!! Such a loyal, maniacal warrior!!!
Samurais and Spartans would have gotten along very well fighting together.
Their code is almost identical. Spartans code is the closest to Bushido I have found so far, it’s incredible.
“We ride together, we die together.”
-Samurai who charged into globalized Japanese soldiers probably
Captain Nathan Algren kept his words by killing Colonel Bagley
Courageous men all of them
Colonel Bagley seems to be back in action at 2:03 again.
Wow how the fucc did you catch that bro great attention to detail took me over 10 years to see that lol
What a legend
This was the beginning of the dark days in Japan until after WW2
The samurai knew they were doomed, they just wanted to go out swinging.
@Justinian43 This movie is a work of fiction. The real life rebellion this movie was based off was very different. For the samurai did use guns. The samurai that were rebelling against the emperor at that time had modern firearms of the period. It was only after that they ran out of ammo and got surrounded were they forced to fall back their swords and spears. The result was they were all but massacred by artillery and rifle fire. Before that it turns out that the samurai had quite the effective musket units. In 1543 the Portuguese introduced the matchlock musket to Japan and it was adopted with glee. This movie operates under the delusion that the samurai never embraced advancements in technology and never used because guns because "guns are dishonorable" bullshit trope.
I know your comment is incredibly old, but I just wanted to say something.
I once heard a guy telling that the line "he doesn't dishonor himself by using guns anymore" that is heard in the movie could very well mean that Katsumoto did in fact use them during the war and ran out of ammo, but instead of admitting that he declared that guns were dishonorable, as kind of a propaganda trick.
It may be only an interpretation, but why not?
Kylo Ren asshurt
Samurai did use fire weapons also used more spears than katana anyway its a movie not a documental
You HAD to go and ruin the movie for me, didn’t you?
@@AdrianCelsiusTepes they also rarely used kitanas on the battlefield, and probably never from horseback. Prefering bows, pole arms, and blunt weapons.
If you only tried this on Conquero's Blade, your musket unit's get WREKED from any kind of cavalry
saddest scene in the movie :(
Standing in the face of a cavalry charge bayonet fixed takes serious courage
"Seek life when facing death"
-Brain Unglaus
That sounds like the name of a Gwar member.
Top 10 heroic cavalry charges.
@Chuckie Damon you missed the point of the ENTIRE movie in one comment.
best movie ever!
Kind of, its when you show empathy to your captors, i think it caters to your enemies in overall aswell
This is why I'm so fascinated by the samurai. I mean just look at the this and the fog battle. Samurai were intended to be intimidating and even the bravest soldiers would be nervous to see that many samurai like in the fog battle just don't bother to attack. It's useless.
I believe one of the reasons that they did torture was that they did not understand why massive armies would surrender, like the British did in World War 2, the largest surrender being after the Battle of Singapore. I believe that the Japanese in WW2 still had a large sense of honour, and they believed in death before surrender, any way possible. I's likely that the reason lots of them tortured because of them disliking people who would surrender dishonourably.
The background for the period of the movie [History] is incorrect. For example, the Japanese soldiers' armor and costumes in this movie are from the late 16th century, not the late 19th century (at that time from the end of the Tokugawa period to the beginning of the Meiji period). In addition, Westerners like the word "samurai", but in Japan at that time, it was more popular to call it "bushi", "buke", "bujin", "bumon" instead of "samurai".
ほんと名作過ぎる
Confusius say "Never bring sword to gun fight".
Ok I cant be the only one..why the cannons firing sound more...bass? Its much different from the start of the battle where they kinda sounded..hollow? Anyone else think so?
Am I the only one wondering why the Imperial soldiers just didn't form a square? Tactics 101.
Keep in mind this Hollywood. They rarely think about strategy, tactics, the advancements in weaponry, and try to depict things in real fashion. Truth be told the fact that the Imperial soldiers have bolt action rifles takes away most of the need for the old Napoleon volley fire formation. Heck even though they are single shot bolt actions they're still better and have a higher rate of fire than the muzzle loading rifle. Or better yet why didn't they advance the Gatling guns forward. Their rate of fire would've crushed the formation from the get go. They could've also divided the infantry and place them on the hills to provide long range rifle fire in support of the Gatling guns. Let's be honest the volley fire that is done with historical period films like this looks on great on camera and wows the audience. That's would be my guess why the producers did they did with the battle sequence this way or it could part of the story in order to show the arrogance and short sidedness of new leaders in Japan. Namely how they're relying solely on firepower as opposed to proper leadership, tactics, and strategy.
Square would work just as well here as it did in the Napoleonic wars for the simple reason that a horse will in almost all circumstances refuse to charge into a wall of spikes such as a line of bayonets, on that matter square would possibly not be the best formation for the infantry here since they are not out numbered by the horses and square would only allow a quarter of the infantry to fire where as a line would allow everyone to fire and in reality the horses would not be too keen to charge the wall of bayonets.
I think a spearhead would also be a good tactic
Forming lines against a cavalry charge...that's not soldiering.
Because they are not Romans or Napoleonic Infantry
Amazing scene!
help i cant stop press replay
Ngoc Y Le and pull the trigger
Press 2 repeatedly to hear a distant dog.
@corsair831
This is loosely based off of The battle of Shiroyama
In real life the last charge was done with less than 400 men, against a force of 30 000. The charge happened after receiving WEEKS of artillery bombardment, they all planned on dying anyway. They charged the line and held for a few minutes, slaughtering everyone, until the greater numbers began to tell.
when you play a strategy game and you fall behind on mil tech
I think you don't understand what he means. He is talking about the undying spirit of the samurai not the samurai as a war unit. In WW2 there were some dudes known as Kamikaze and that is the last influence of the samurai spirit in action. Nowadays there are still people in Japan who are interested in these ideals so yeah the bombs didn't defeat the old samurai spirit. Japan hasn't completely lost its culture for some reason. That's what I think he is trying to say.
nice movie"depends on thier faith&principle,fights and pride
1:46: Our general is in grave danger, my lord!
@chukie dannon, they weren't thinking about victory. They were aware that they were meeting their end and they seeked a good death on the battlefield. And these samurai refuse to own or use guns.
How effective was the bayonet to dismount cavalry instead of the peak?
Pikes would have the edge over bayonets against cavalry.
Spears, in general, are longer than your average rifle or musket, and the bayonet was better for close combat with foot soldiers.
I wanna see this director make a film for Marvel
Best movie Battle ever
bulletproof horses!!
if the samurai had a shorter distance then they could have had less losses
edit: once they got to the front lines they could only be stopped by bayonets for muskets have no aim beyond point blank
Those are breech-loaded rifles, not muskets. This film is set in the 1870s.
Thanks really thanks
I also admire their history and culture and these ideals. I'm not going to judge any American who enjoys this movie of course. But being a European myself I can see the differences between the western culture(and capitalism which is a big part of it) and the far east culture. In this movie you can see things that all we, who follow with our eyes closed the ideas of today's civilization, have forgotten...
how did they film this?
With a camera
Guys stop it, it was obviously the potato 3000
No idea bro, it’s a complete mystery
all you mighty warriors
I still don't understand why Tom cruise wasn't so much as arrested for joining the samurai
Lmao 10 years later
@@stephenford6132 10 years later you replied? Lol
@@Codeslammer cause it’s still funny
@@Codeslammersuch a legend, replied after 10 years
@@orange4191 This is a legendary thread. I am happy to be a part of this. lol.
Sir, I fear your general is in mortal peril!
JEEEEAAAAAAAH ! ! !
Swords, javelins, what's the difference?
Qell it took a last samurai charge for the imperial army to bow down
Great movie overall, but this charge straight into soldiers with guns pointed at you didn't make sense. Why not divide the Samurais into 2 or 3 groups coming in from different directions? That would obviously cause some confusion in the enemy & probably give a better, although slim chance of victory
i don't think he claimed the samurai were present in WWII... and they still did believe in honour. every society kills rapes and tortures no matter what level of dignity they have... up until hiroshima the japanese still had no word for surrender in their language
wouldnt having more archers be more effective then charging at them first?
exactly what I was thinking, like the samurai were literally archers first and foremost, swordsman second. one only drew a katana as a last ditch means of self defence, they would have stayed back and used archery (probably with better accuracy than early firearms as well) then they might have charged with spears since you know, charging with swords is actually an autistic idea on horseback. then maybe after they were in very close and had to dismount they might have drawn swords
Epic, This is JAPAAAAAAAN!!!
go with friends into death how happy they are
The Japanese version of the Charge of the Light Brigade
@corsair831 this was a time of honour. In modern day war tactics they should of surrendered or retreated.
Honour. That is good
yeah, i LIKE the way he died xD
nice throw, cruise! :D
Don't form lines! Form squares!
0:55 bad ass music comes on
I’m there now
Tony Goldwin is back!
you do know that samurai were nothing like they were shown in that video? pick up a history book, there were times in medieval japan when a samurai would kill a peasant just to try out his weapon...give people power and they will abuse it, that's how it always was and how it always will be, no matter where you are.
Ask a Navy Seal, I believe they are the only ones who could even partially grasp what it is to be samurai, make whatever hateful claims against the empire, they did many aweful things, but we all know the US is a perfect angel right...?
Why are you guys riding in slow motion?! They're shooting at you! Fast forward! Fast forward!
Honestly I always perfer guns but these samurai were the most fucking brave people I would never try to fight a army with guns when I have a fucking sword I would run away
Are the soldiers using muskets or rifles
Early bolt action rifles.
They used flintlock firearms when Algren was training them, but they upgraded to early bolt action rifles during his stay in the village.
Those commanders were stupid. They shouldn’t have pursued the samurai at the beginning of the fight. They all gotta be fired
So good
The song. I need the name of the song.
1:27
Who is Will?
These were real men !
3 hours charge bro!
U would think tht a volley like the last one at point blank range would actually kill some horses too....
The never trained the Imperial Japanese Army in the importance of square formation against a cavalry charge?
The reason I prefer the imperials over the samurai both were flawed but the imperials embracing of the gun saved japan from european colonization
+Kyle Cushing The samurais already had guns (arquebus, imports from Portuguese traders) during the Sengoku Jidai.
+Ian Cabugsa But the Imperials utilized guns more than the Samurai.
This movie takes place more after the pro-shogun forces had already fallen, and it wasn't imperials vs. samurai, samurai were on both sides of the conflict, hell samurai existed all the way up through WWII. Anyway the shogun forces had already been defeated even though they deployed modernized armies just the same, this movie is about the radical hold outs in northern japan that were still in rebellion even though the war was over (hint hint, the symmetry of nathans experience in the souix rebellions)
My computer buffered at exactly 1:54 :D
Because throwing katanas is a real thing....
Throwing a katana like it was a spear it´s a technique of the school of Miyamoto Musashi, of the section of shurikenjutsu
I've never heard about swords being thrown like javelins, only historical texts I've seen reguarding throwing swords is more akin to throwing them like an axe... But again why the heck would you want to throw your weapon away you don't see soldiers fixing bayonets and chucking their rifles at the enemy....
Bruh people even threw bayonets during the civil war
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