saint dave Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Haven't seen a thread about this anywhere. A English ships pilot shipwrecks on the coast of Japan with the remains of his crew and gets taken prisoner by the local samurai chief , then finds himself mixed up in a oncoming civil war between 5 regents. Some great characters and some faintly recognisable Japanese actors and brilliant swearing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Bloody repeats 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Oh, I vaguely mind reading it years ago on a recommendation! Little dry at times but also cool & semi-historical, will give it a go. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 I've watched about 6 episodes. Its not bad, glad they've got actual Japanese people and language in it. Some of scenes on the ships are cringe looking due to bad use of green screen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIVIFOREVER Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 (edited) Watched it years ago with Richard Chamberlain playing the John Blackthorn role, and really enjoyed it, so was looking forward to this series. Bit of a slow burner with the amount of episodes compared to the one back in 1980, but still really good, hate having to watch it an episode a week, that's 3 weeks its been building up from a slow simmer, i'm bursting to see it boil into action. Hopefully next week's episode will be the one to get my juices flowing. Edited April 11 by LIVIFOREVER 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIVIFOREVER Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) Can't express enough how i fucking hate episodes being released weekly, arghhhhhh! Really enjoyed tonight's episode, full of emotion, and that ending, i'd be right onto the next episode even if it was 3am, couldn't possibly leave it there, but the b*****ds did, and i'll have to wait another week for the next one. Spoiler At least John Blackthorne got his nat king cole before Mariko got spread all over the place............ Edited April 16 by LIVIFOREVER 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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