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Explanation:

Correct answer is Samurai.

Explanation:

The movie itself depicts how the samurais were abolished in the 19th Century Japan during the period of its modernization and westernization.

Samurai were an important and integral part of Japanese society in their feudal system, but as the time passed, the system change and they were no longer needed.

At the end, they became martyrs just because they didn't wanted to accept imposed changes.