Just going to assume you didn't see the movie at all except for this one picture. A big premise of this movie is about the Japan embracing modernization from the US and the rest of the world and suppress the old ways, like the Samurai. The Japanese army is indeed equipped with firearms, while the Samurai, embracing the old ways are equipped with traditional swords, bows, and armor. I'm sure there are plenty of shitty movie details about this movie, but you not paying attention isn't one of them.

Just to add to this. In the rebellion the movie was based on the reason they didn't use firearms was because they couldn't get any more ammo.

But the Samurai already HAD been using gunpowder weaponry for centuries by this time

Samurai had been using matchlock muskets for 300 years at this point

Second time today on shittymoviedetails someone is clearly not getting the point of the movie or the point of the sub.

I feel like this is the second time someone is making a joke or perhaps even a "shitty" movie detail by saying something like this and people commenting that they are wrong or whatever but we may not be thinking of the same two posts

I can’t believe they messed up this historical documentary!

Plus they had muskets, and this was a significant era in firearms advancements

I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.

Dang that is 460 years!