The cone heads are not really cowards. In Japan it is just unthinkable to fight against the Emperor. The coming army with the cannon was carrying the Chrysanthemum Crest of the Japanese Emperor. So they had no choice but to retreat. This is the exact moment in the time of the Japanese history that the Shogun for which the Shinsengumi was fighting for, became from "for the Emperor" to "against the Emperor."
Talk about "cowards"; Nothing like a useful idiot who hides behind a phony moniker using a mass murdering "Che" for an image. Read Humberto Fontova for the reality that is your hero Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. But of course, that's the problem; morons who are too lazy and too stupid to actually study the issues and read.
That pointy helmet was actually standard equipment of the line Infantry of satsuma domain not just of the azure dragon force in fots which probably is historically inaccurate
The flag of Nishiki is the flag of the Emperor set by Satsuma and Choshu. The army holding the flag is recognized as the Emperor's army. However, it is a flag made by Satsuma and Choshu, not a true flag. But since no one had seen it, they believed it to be the Emperor's flag. For all Japanese people, it is unthinkable to face the Emperor's army and fighting against it becomes a bandit. Therefore, the samurai other than the Shinsengumi could not fight, and they left the battlefield. However, the Shinsengumi fought for the righteousness for the Shogunate as the last samurai. The Shinsengumi lived in righteousness and disappeared for righteousness.
@@loveofmangos001 he's right, it's called sat-cho alliance, satsuma and chosu, satsuma is the name of one of the strongest domains in japan that controls the entire island of kyushu, its capital is Kagoshima and the clan that rules hereditary there is the shimazu clan.
Correction: Not "bandit". More accurate, "traitors". But let's not forget that for centuries, the sovereign rule of the Imperial Family was eclipsed by a perpetual regency under a General (aka. "shogun"). The General was the de facto dictator. And not an heir of the Imperial clan.
The scene actually makes sense. hats with sloped points to deflect blows and growing twenty pounds of hair is a good way to protect the head and neck areas. The horse back guy survived being shot because he grows the same amount of hair in the chest area, Japanese ingenuity is astounding.
Not really. The hat, form all aspects, is a result of insufficient military expenditure thus they use what they could grasp to distinguish themselves from other forces. As for wig（Haguma in this scene), it's a merit issued by palace, wore by officers only. None of them are defensive against rifles neither blades.
Headcorn type helmets were made of thin steel and leather and easy for mass production. Headcorn helmets on the screen seem to be made of plastics and quite different from original ones.
Japanese helmets are very strange and do not offer any kind of hard protection. During the 1592 Imjin War, the Korean and Ming Chinese forces all wore heavy mail and plate with chapel de fer (kettle hats) or the heavier morion helmet and they fared far better than Hideyoshi's samurai, who were all wearing flimsy armor and hats like the ones seen here.
@@BlueSkyCountry You are talking about two vastly different eras here. First, many of the hats worn in Japan came directly from China/Korea or were imitations of traditional hats worn there. Helmets samurai wore were designed to protect primarily from arrows and secondarily blades as until the mid 1500s arrowfire was the main threat faced on the Japanese battlefield. None of those countries' helmets were designed to stop gunfire, even by the time of the Boshin wars you don't have helmets effective at stopping gunfire anywhere in the world. As for the Ming and Joseon armor the rumors of their protective qualities against matchlock fire (the main weapons used on both sides of the war) is largely exaggerated. Some writers claimed the lamellar armor was impervious to matchlock fire but we know that is simply impossible, and accounts show many soldiers fell in droves to matchlock barrages they simply charged forward convinced of the protective qualities of their equipment. They did design some shields that were at least partially effective in catching bullets, which honestly is the likely reason viewers at the time were convinced the armor could withstand bullets. Most Joseon Koreans wore padded or leather armor, metal armor was only common within the capital. Conversely quite a few samurai by this point were wearing European-made armor and helmets, or Japanese-made imitations of them. Not enough to outfit entire armies but it wasn't uncommon to see at this point. The vast majority of Toyotomi's forces however were not samurai but conscripted ashigaru and although by then they were using largely standardized equipment it's not to the same quality as samurai.
@@BlueSkyCountry This is all false, the kabuto worn by 16th century shogunate forces are nothing at all like the helmets of the imperial forces in 1868. They were not running around in late 19th century european style uniforms in the imjin war. The koreans *absolutely* did not use morions, since morions are european helmets, and korea wasn't westernised like Japan (not many guns or other western technology). Also, the koreans got slaughtered (on land) in the imjin war, what source have you got this from? Even if the samurai had bad helmets, the koreans definitely didn't fare better than them, since the koreans barely had any guns lol.
@@JuandeMariana1994 but the real hittokiri just killed a senior that was not an elite warrior just was a politician no other victim of that guy was reported or demonstrated, that character is really overrated and was not match for a man like Hijikata Toshizo, Kondou Isami or Okita Souji and of course Saitoh Hajime..
То действительно ложь... Фильм который врет как и японцам так и европейцам... Такого быть не могло и не может быть... Потому как сами "японцы" появились на острове Япония только в 18 веке и были настолько немощны что могли только наблюдать и не более...
This is really an excellent movie. The best i've seen as far as films depicted in the boshin war. The music honestly was incredible at times, and at other times it almost seems to mimic kurosawa films a bit, which I like. I've always wondered why they chose red and black for the shinsengumi though.
You are forgetting a period of Japanese history know as "The Golden Age of the Turncoat", when lords changed sides at the drop of a hat, without even bothering to inform their previous allies. As with medieval European knights, much of what we have been told about the samurai class is pure myth. Their so called code of honour only ever extended to their own class, never to those deemed to be of lower class.
That guy is actually Hijikata Toshizo the commander of the Shinsengumi at the time that this scene takes place after the death of their previous commander Kondo Isami
Jonathan William I guess they're easy to mass produce due to its shape. Japan wasn't heavily industrialized yet at this time, so most things had to be made by hand, instead of machine forged/stamped like they were in western countries.
***** they were inspired by the tall "shako" hats worn by european armies, the Imperialists wanted to push towards a more modern japan, and since most of europe was their model for modernization, they figured they'd copy aspects of modern europe (note the lack of armor, even common footsoldiers in feudal japan wore a bit of armor, but armor wasn't considered out of date around these times)
Jose Piscano Gotcha...man, military uniforms back then sure didn't make much sense. Wearing a hat like that is like having a bulleyes on you. Fortunately for them, Japan probably haven't deployed snipers yet.
