Samurai vs Guns — The Boshin War and the End of Feudal Japan

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Samurai vs Guns — The Boshin War and the End of Feudal Japan

For centuries, the samurai were Japan.
They ruled its wars, its honor, and its balance of power. Their swords were not just weapons, but symbols of an entire civilization built on loyalty, hierarchy, and tradition.
Then, in 1868, rifles appeared on the battlefield.
Not as curiosities.
As systems.

The Boshin War was not just a Japanese civil war. It was the moment feudal Japan collided with the modern world. It was the conflict where samurai formations faced industrial firepower, castles faced artillery, and a warrior class that had shaped a nation for centuries discovered that it no longer belonged to the future.

This documentary explores how the arrival of modern weapons, foreign influence, and political revolution dismantled the Tokugawa shogunate and gave birth to the Meiji state. From the Black Ships and forced treaties to the battles that shattered the old armies, from the fall of feudal domains to the last campaigns of samurai resistance, this film traces how an entire social order was replaced.

Inside this story:
– The feudal system and the rise of the samurai class
– Western intrusion and the opening of Japan
– The collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate
– The outbreak of the Boshin War
– Samurai armies facing modern rifles and artillery
– The last campaigns of resistance in northern Japan
– The abolition of the samurai class
– And the birth of modern Japan

The samurai did not disappear in a single battle.
They dissolved.
When rifles replaced swords, the samurai did not just lose wars. They lost their function. And when a warrior class loses its purpose, it does not evolve. It vanishes.
On Fragments of History, we explore the moments when entire worlds collapse and new ones are imposed.
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