When I was in high school, my teacher said that today I only saw the main story of the lower-level samurai who lost their daimyo's attachment and became a ronin during the end of the era, struggling to maintain their dignity as samurai or to put down their face in order to survive. The protagonist is a lower-level samurai, facing the representative of the highest power samurai, Tokugawa Bennosuke. The rule of the samurai has been shaken, and for the lower samurai, Bushido is nothing more than starving and keeping the appearance of two katana swords. Jin Yun's son-in-law had to sell the samurai sword for a living and tried to deceive the upper-class samurai for profit. However, Jing Yi indiscriminately dismissed him as a liar and forced him to commit suicide, which directly led to the tragedy of Qian Qianyan's family's tragic death due to lack of money for medical treatment.
The high-ranking samurai had no sympathy for the lower-ranking warrior's confidence, berating him for being shameless, and he was furious when the lower-ranking warrior revealed that the Ii family's samurai did not follow the way of Bushido. The climax of the film is that Jin Yun saves the armor that symbolizes the ancestors of the Tokugawa family, and finally collapses under the musket. The farce that Bushido could not solve was finally ended by the musket, the product of industrialization. From top to bottom, it's all about self-deception to preserve Bushido. The samurai regime is in jeopardy. What Jingyi can do is to weave a whole set of lies, and tacitly maintain the last facade of Bushido with other upper-level samurai.
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