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redsamuraiii · 12 hours

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Looking up into the sky, he thought...

Ah, Mariko, what a wondrous lady you are. Yes, are, because you will certainly live forever. Are you with your Christian God in your Christian heaven? I hope not. That would be a terrible waste. I hope your spirit's just awaiting Buddha's forty days for rebirth somewhere here. I pray your spirit comes into my family. Please. But again as a lady - not as a man. We could not afford to have you as a man. You're much too special waste as a man.

James Clavell's Shogun (1975), Chapter 60, Page 1063

#shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun fx #james clavell #yoshii toranaga #hiroyuki sanada #mariko toda #anna sawai #japan #jidaigeki #period drama #book excerpt

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victusinveritas · 3 days

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#shogun series #shogun #anjin san #james clavell #shogun fx

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onlyperioddramas · 3 months

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Shôgun - trailer (2024)

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ariadnethedragon · 1 month

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SHŌGUN (2024)

Chapter 6: Ladies of the Willow World

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thenotoriousscuttlecliff · 2 months

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Like most of the characters in Shōgun, John Blackthorne is actually based on a real person. William Adams was an English navigator who arrived in Japan in 1600 and quickly became a key adviser to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the future shōgun, who saw him as a valuable source about Western culture, weapons, and ship building, commissioning him to build the first western style ships in Japan. For his services to leyasu, Adams was given the title of Miura Anjin and eventually rose to the rank of samurai and hatamoto, with Hemi as his fief. He remained in Japan for the rest of his life. His memorial site was designated a National Historic Site by the Japanese government in 1923.

#shogun #william adams #john blackthorne #james clavell #history of japan #clavell basically just took the real historical events and put his own characters into so he could have a bit more creative freedom

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boardchairman-blog · 2 months

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**Shots of the Episode**

Shōgun (2024)

Episode 1: “Anjin” (2023) Director: Jonathan van Tulleken Cinematographer: Christopher Ross

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philosophors · 2 months

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“The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous.”

— James Clavell

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sanflawoah · 4 days

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The Ochiba and Toranaga situation is interesting and all, but it's also very funny spicy when you think about it. Their only interactions in the show are just Ochiba throwing bombastic side eyes and Toranaga being ".....???" like he's just confused wtf is her problem.

Just saying that the book lowkey ships them it was so funny, almost cursed even.

Chapter 56 (Ochiba's thoughts) -

"....Marry Toranaga? Buddha protect me from that shame, from having to welcome him and feel his weight and his spurting life.

Shame?

Ochiba, what is the truth? she asked herself. The truth is that you wanted him once—before the Taikō, neh? Even during, neh? Many times in your secret heart. Neh? The Wise One was right again about pride being your enemy and about needing a man, a husband."

Chapter 58 -

"...Suddenly Ochiba wished that Toranaga was here beside her and not Ishido, that Toranaga was master of Osaka Castle and master of the Taikō’s treasure, Protector of the Heir and Chief General of the Armies of the West, and not Ishido. Then there would be no problems. Together they would possess the realm, all of it, and now, today, at this moment, she would beckon him to bed or to an inviting glade and tomorrow or the next day they would marry, and whatever happened in the future, today she would possess and be possessed and be at peace."

Chapter 56, (after she secretly had sex with that peasant who resembles the Taiko) -

Then, just the other side of the wood, Toranaga had been waiting for her. Had he seen her, she wondered in panic.

“I was worried about you, Lady,” he had said.

“I’m—I’m perfectly all right, thank you.”

“But your kimono’s all torn—there’s bracken down your back and in your hair….”

“My horse threw me—it’s nothing.” Then she had challenged him to a race home to prove that nothing was wrong, and had set off like the wild wind,

There were other lines of Ochiba having h0rny thoughts and it's just-💀💀💀

In Ochiba's POV, she did considered reasonable alliance with Toranaga. Overall, her reaction to being suggested into marrying Toranaga was like ,"Fuck no... unless?"

Meanwhile, Toranaga's reaction to the suggestion was straight up "what the fUCK-".

#toranaga x ochiba #<- for comedy purpose #yoshii toranaga #ochiba no kata #fx shogun #shogun #james clavell #how she grew to hate him is actually rooted by the paranoia from that chapter 56 flashback

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floater0352 · 3 months

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One of my first (but hopefully not last) contributions to the emerging trivia on Shôgun:

Lady Ochiba / Ruri, the mother of the Taiko's heir Yaechiyo, is based on Lady Yodo/Chacha (1569-1615), niece to Oda Nobunaga and second spouse of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. We see her here as the primary moving force shoring up her son's position and the patron of Toranaga's rival Ishido.

Fumi Nikaido as Lady Ochiba, Shôgun, 2024

What makes the casting of this one very interesting is that Fumi Nikaido has played the actual role of Yodo/Chacha in a similar period production, the 2014 NHK taiga drama Gunshi Kanbei (which was primarily about Kuroda Kanbei, the strategist of Hideyoshi played by Junichi Okada).

Fumi Nikaido as Yodo, Gunshi Kanbei, 2014

While there's enough hype for Toranaga (especially as he is portrayed by public favorite and producer Hiroyuki Sanada--rightfully so), I wish to highlight Fumi Nikaido's return to this role as it does help highlight the differences between how Lady Yodo is portrayed in fiction. (It does help that we have no shortage of it now--even if it's mostly in videogames like Samurai Warriors, Sengoku Basara or the more historically-faithful Nioh).

The material we have of Lady Ochiba so far is of a proud, haughty, even disrespectful woman--and perhaps it's not exactly far off from how Chacha is portrayed even in Japanese media. To some extent, even Gunshi Kanbei conceded to this especially in the episodes I'm referring with this photo--what with it precisely being the moment Yodo is fearing coming to pass. A mother seeking to protect her son's patrimony (and by extension, her agency and regency), it's a universal trope in feudal drama. What Shôgun does not give her yet (but Gunshi Kanbei took pains to establish) is the recognition that she is as much a victim of the warring era, turning her into a self-loathing monster only able to survive trying to make sense of it all, and maybe recover their agency in it. Clavell rightfully gave it to his main focus character, Lady Mariko (played very layered and well by Anna Sawai compared to her more recent outings--herself based on Hosokawa Gracia).

It truly amazes me that 10 years has yet to make much of a difference for Fumi Nikaido and this role. The woman whose position at the top was only made possible by misery and her playing by the cruel game of chaos, she portrays both versions with the edge, anxiety and palpable will of a woman who's lost everything before and is at the doorstep of losing them again.

#shôgun #shogun #samurai #shogun fx #shôgun fx #shôgun 2024 #shogun 2024 #fumi nikaido #chacha #lady yodo #yodo-dono #ochiba no kata #james clavell #lady ochiba

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diosa-loba · 2 months

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“It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only god knows where.”

― James Clavell, Shōgun

#shogun #james clavell

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k-wame · 9 months

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George Segal as Corporal King & James Fox as Flight Lt. Peter Marlowe 1965 · KING RAT · dir. Bryan Forbes · WWII · LGBTQ+

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redsamuraiii · 2 months

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Shogun (Ep 5)

He was angry but he still cares for her. 😭

#shogun #james clavell #shogun fx #shogun 2024 #cosmo jarvis #john blackthorne #moeka hoshi #usami fuji #japan #period drama #jidaigeki

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victusinveritas · 3 months

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Toshiro Mifune & Richard Chamberlain on the set of Shogun, 1980.

#shogun #james clavell #richard chamberlain #toshiro mifune

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80smovies · 1 month

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#The Fly #The Fly 1986 #The Fly 1958 #Return of the Fly #Vincent Price #Kurt Neumann #James Clavell #George Langelaan #David Cronenberg #Charles Edward Pogue #Edward Bernds #80s

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dgct2 · 3 months

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Destiny. We all have a moment that changes us.

When I was a kid my mom and I watched the Shogun miniseries with Richard Chamberlain. She absolutely adored him. I became entranced by the world. The moment changed my life. When Blackthorne learns Japanese from Mariko, that is me learning right along with him. It is because of this series that I eventually studied Japanese and karate.

I remember inhaling Shogun and then the rest of the Asian Saga by James Clavell. Thankfully I grew up in a house where books were celebrated. My parents had a library that covered two 20' long walls top to bottom. Hundreds of books that I could get lost in. It was a dream come true.

Fast forward 40 years and FX has done a remake of Shogun. To say that I was nervous and had high hopes would be an understatement. Just finished watching the first two episodes and all I can say so far is that it has exceeded my expectations. The music. The scenery. The costumes. The details that bring a book to life. This series has it in spades. It is going to be a masterpiece. Go check it out if you get a chance. You can watch the series on FX, Hulu, and Disney+.

#shogun #book worm #reading #movies #hiroyuki sanada #james clavell #random posts about me #japanese #karate #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun 1980

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jokramer · 7 days

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Me at virtually any point while reading shogun

#shōgun #shogun #john blackthorne #james clavell #like having an affair with a married woman #like thinking he would have his ship back #like wanting to besiege osaka castle #list goes on

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