>>519270
>"admiral! there's a samurai outside the ship!"
>"yeah, so?"
>"AND HE'S GOT A GUN"

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>>519270
The Japanese selected their own Idealized version of themselves, and "they" settled on the image of the Katana toting muh honor samurai, for their contribution to history.

all warrior cultures selected either directly or indirectly, to identify their self idealized history

Its pretty easy.

>>519284
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The Japanese selected their own Idealized version of themselves, and "they" settled on the image of the Katana toting muh honor samurai, for their contribution to history.
This was because they all had their guns taken away by the gubment, and they wanted to make it clear it was not because they were pussies or anything.

>>519270

But why aren't there guns in kurosawa's films?

>>519323
>Kurosawa
>fucking anime

>>519323
Because Kurosawa was a master of being political without being too 'political'.

In the postwar era, gunbattles would have almost certainly rubbed audiences the wrong way.

>>519333
>Kurosawa
>anime

Those sets do not intersect

>>519323
Ronin films wouldn't have guns, guns weren't used for dueling, swords were a symbol of authority. I also think Ran had guns in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbbfDntoRRk
1:25

>>519323
Here's a longer version of that scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQczO-YzMZ8

>>519323

The samurais did use guns at one point in Seven Samurai. But the guns were stolen from the bandits, if I don't remember wrong.

>>519270
>muh asawaru no nino barabu wakasaki desu shitai rmraiko entei gooking

>>519270
Samurai culture was really solidified during the Tokugawa. Guns were in widespread use during Sengoku, but that included peasant armies as well.

>>519270
Because Samurai rarely carried guns around them in off-duty functions.

>>519323
Both Kagemusha and Ran featured guns extensively