... were to America's attack. The whole concept of Kyuzo's death tries to empathise how the military are no longer powerful and required, this is especially shown as the main objective of the film is still achieved despite and without Kyuzo. More so the character of Kikuchiyo is equally as important, a samurai who ... is actually a farmer's son, he allows a bridge to be formed between the poor farmers of the village and the hired samurai. ... When finding out that the farmers have been hiding old samurai armour presumably taken from dead and weak soldiers, there comes ... we are also encou...

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