The film's story takes place between 1876 and 1877, during the riots of Japan's declining samurai class. The samurai used to be a privileged class in Japan's feudal history. At the end of the Edo period, the samurai class began to differentiate, and the life of the lower samurai deteriorated sharply. Many were unable to engage in agriculture and small business in private. The overwhelmed peasants continued to riot, and after the U.S. Navy Commodore Perry opened the door to Japan in 1853, it made people see the serious crisis of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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