Mar 25, 2023
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai (2021)
Captain Jules Brunet was sent to Japan in 1867 to train the Japanese in Western Military Tactics after the Shogunate requested help from Napoleon III. When the Imperials took control, he was ordered to return to France but he chose to stay and fight with the Samurai against the Imperials.
After the fall of Aizu, he fled to Hokkaido with the Samurai survivors where a last major battle of the Boshin War took place at Hakodate. He did his best but the Imperials outnumbered and outgunned the Samurai. He managed to return home and wrote a memoir where he spoke highly of the Shinsengumi.
He inspired Tom Cruise's character of Nathan Algren in The Last Samurai .
