at first and i be disappoint . with what this movie be try to do and it be just fall short . a the film draw on and i become increasingly angry with the director stereotypical portrayal of the samurai and lack of understanding of meiji period japan . the oversimplification in the film make pearl harbor look like a documentary . there be no discussion of why the samurai be angry and why they rebel beyond japan be lose it way . the fact that and after more than 250 year of almost total isolation from the rest of the world and japan have be forcibly open to foreign trade in 1853 be simply ignore . the rapid influx of western idea and science and technology and personnel and the tension this cause be consider to be of no importance . the humiliating term of the ansei treaty that japan be force into be mention in passing and out of context . the traditionalist backlash and the violence and the overthrow of the shogunate all be condense into a bunch of angry samurai rebel . why be the samurai rebelling . be it because they be strip of their title of nobility . or because they be no longer permit to carry sword . or because they lose their government stipend . perhaps because saigo takamori wasn not allow to invade korea . we do not know and because the movie mention none of these thing and choose instead to depict the restriction against ponytail while reiterate that japan be lose it way . the politics of meiji period japan be also horribly condense into some oily japanese businessmen out to make a buck by coddle to the west . the emperor role be horribly exaggerate while his position be almost entirely ceremonial and he play virtually no part in the political process . for him to discuss a treaty with a foreign diplomat be absurd . i could go on and but i be run out of space .