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The message of the last samurai is that the emperor betrayed sonnō jōi.
But I mean, yeah, the movie is about how the traditional Japanese order of society is good actually and western influence is corrupting it. Which is a surprisingly often employed motif by western filmmakers making fiction about Japan.
Like the only way western filmmakers can imagine appealing to a japanese audience is making movies about how ending Sakoku was a mistake.
Which is ironic, as the common Western notion of the samurai is based on a flimsy pseudo-history intended to make feudal Japan seem heroic by Western standards. So it’s this weird ouroboros of the West lamenting that they’ve sullied the old ways of Japan, but the vision of Old Japan they’re painting is itself a Western dilution.