I recommend you to watch the movie The Last Samurai

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There is Tom Cruise...Nathan Algren

Ken Watanabe...Katsumoto

Hiroyuki Sanada

The story of the film takes place between 1876 and 1877, which was a period of riots in Japan due to the declining samurai class. Samurai were once a privileged class in Japanese feudal history. By the end of the Edo period (the Tokugawa shogunate period), the samurai class began to differentiate. The lives of the lower-class samurai deteriorated sharply, and many were forced to engage in agriculture and small business privately. In 2002, Yamada Yoji's "Twilight Seihei" is a good portrayal of lower-level samurai during that period. The overwhelmed peasants continued to riot, and after Commodore Perry opened the door to Japan in 1853, people saw the serious crisis of the Tokugawa shogunate. This led to the overthrow movement of lower-class samurai as the main body.

However, the Meiji Restoration after the successful overthrow did not initially benefit the lower-class samurai who were the main force of the restoration. On the contrary, the abolition of the feudal hereditary status system of "scholars, peasants, industrialists, merchants, and untouchables" not only achieved equality among the four peoples to a certain extent, but also abolished the privileges once enjoyed by the warrior class. In the following years, the promulgation of the "Conscription Order" and the "Prohibition of Revenge" further deprived the samurai of the need to exist. The samurai who had no source of livelihood and were not very self-reliant were greatly dissatisfied with this. In March 1876, the Meiji government promulgated the "Abolition of Swords Ordinance", which prohibited people from bringing swords out of the house. This completely banned the rights of samurai, ended the status of samurai, and finally triggered a series of samurai riots. Of course, these civil unrests were eventually successfully suppressed.

Katsumoto, one of the protagonists of this film, is based on the deeds of Saigo Takamori. The event is called the "Southwestern War" in history.

Plot summary

< p> In 1865, the American Civil War ended. But the hearts of the soldiers could not be at peace. In the large-scale westward expansion that followed, the white soldiers who had just survived the smoke of the Civil War were brought to the front line of killing Indians.

Captain Nasha Algren witnessed so much blood and violence in the war that he lost his soul; especially when he saw his superior officer, Colonel Benjamin Bagley, slaughtering Indians , he even felt that his sense of honor as a soldier had disappeared. When the spirit of bravery and sacrifice was replaced by the utilitarianism and selfishness of the new era, Elgland, immersed in the dream of past glory, could only drink all day long to drown his sorrows.

By chance, he was recommended to representatives of the newly established Meiji government from across the ocean to train Japan's first modern army. The depressed Elgren felt that this job was good, at least he could die on the battlefield like a real warrior.

The first thing that the army trained by Elgland has to deal with is the stubborn samurai group that attempts to block the modernization process. After a fierce battle in thick fog, not only was the emperor's modern army defeated, but instructor Elgren himself was captured by the samurai. Although he killed one of the warriors who besieged him in the fight, he did not die as quickly as he expected. On the contrary, Katsumoto, the leader of the samurai group, captured him alive and sent his sister Doriko to take care of him; and Doriko's husband was the samurai killed by Elgren...

In In a village where samurai and their families lived together, Elgren found that he could not help but fall in love with samurai culture. From the spiritual and physical training of bushido, he seemed to have found the sense of honor that a warrior should have. At the same time, under Doriko's careful care, some subtle feelings seemed to arise between them. However, the wheel of history is irreversible, and the Meiji government will naturally not give up the modernization process. There will eventually be a battle between the samurai and the emperor's army. Where should Elgland, who has been deeply fascinated by Bushido, go?