Miniseries – Shogun

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Nicholas L @RT82074956 02/22/2024 Still engaging and feels authentic after all these years. See more Greg T @Gzhtub 02/21/2024 The movie is a bit too short to get the real feel of the excellent TV Series, so try to see that instead if you can, it's an excellent recreation of the book in TV form. It will be interesting to see what the new TV Show does with it... See more rmt m @RT07173522 02/06/2024 It was an excellent tv series. It was very faithful to the book which I suggest you read. The 2024 series that is coming out does not look as close to the book. See more James W @RT03100270 02/01/2024 The best samurai movie of all time. See more 07/09/2022 Very comprehensive film. It was actually showen in 4 parts and went for 8hr 34mins in total so it's a long film... See more 09/07/2021 The series did roughly follow the James Clavell novel, though much was left out. Partly due to the novel being so complicated, but also because the series was geared less to explain history of 1600 Japan and its relation to Europe than it was to introduce America to Japanese culture when most Americans knew little about sake and ninjas. Visually the movie was pretty, but the story focused far too much on the love affair between Blackthorne and Mariko, wife of another samurai, with their spending a lot of time laying together and saying repeatedly how much they love one another. Enough already, we got the idea. And what about Mariko's husband, he just lets it all happen? (The novel explains how this problem ended up being bypassed.) Good if you want light entertainment, but read the novel for a much more long and complicated but more thorough and logical story. See more Read all reviews

Shogun — Miniseries

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