Shogun

Trophy Eyes said:
Really enjoying it, Hiroyuki Sanada who plays Lord Toranaga is always decent.

Finished the fourth yesterday and that ending was brutal!
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Probably the most brutal thing I’ve seen on tv, way more graphic than GoT. Caught up to all 5 now.

Does anyone know what day they’re out?
 


oROSSo said:
Probably the most brutal thing I’ve seen on tv, way more graphic than GoT. Caught up to all 5 now.

Does anyone know what day they’re out?
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Think they air on a monday in the states. I've been watching newly released ones on D+ on tuesday evenings.
 
Monty Pigeon said:
It's an uncanny impression of Richard Burton. Deliberate, apparently, but I don't know why.

Thought the series got off to a decent start, but it's a bit CGI-y, and at times you can see Nigel Williams's fingerprints in the script - eg the cringy dialogue about 'baby earthquakes'. (As well as being a screenwriter, he's written twee novels set in and around Wimbledon.)

I was on a flight yesterday and watched The Last Samurai. Although set a couple of centuries apart, there are some plot similarities with Shogun, and it also co-stars a younger Hiroyuki Sanada, who plays the Shogun in this.
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He sounds more like Russel Crowe for me
 
Monty Pigeon said:
It's an uncanny impression of Richard Burton. Deliberate, apparently, but I don't know why.

Thought the series got off to a decent start, but it's a bit CGI-y, and at times you can see Nigel Williams's fingerprints in the script - eg the cringy dialogue about 'baby earthquakes'. (As well as being a screenwriter, he's written twee novels set in and around Wimbledon.)

I was on a flight yesterday and watched The Last Samurai. Although set a couple of centuries apart, there are some plot similarities with Shogun, and it also co-stars a younger Hiroyuki Sanada, who plays the Shogun in this.
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Great film, one of my favourites.
 
Just watched all the episodes in the space of a couple days. Didn't realise they weren't all out yet. Tremendous. Love the wee consort lass."please be on your way" was mint.
errant said:
a bit violent?
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They do at least hide some of the beheadings. The samurai weren't known for being gentle TBF.
 
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I’m enjoying it. And a mate who know about these things tells me that it’s closer to the book and better than the original Richard Chamberlain series, both of which I have, to this point, been oblivious.

Edit: I thought I was clever saying that the main actor seemed to be doing a Richard Burton vocal impression until the missus told me she’d googled the reviews and told me that the internet was crammed with people saying the same thing.
 
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BiG said:
I’m enjoying it. And a mate who know about these things tells me that it’s closer to the book and better than the original Richard Chamberlain series, both of which I have, to this point, been oblivious.

Edit: I thought I was clever saying that the main actor seemed to be doing a Richard Burton vocal impression until the missus told me she’d googled the reviews and told me that the internet was crammed with people saying the same thing.
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Yeh way closer to the book thunder kildares version
 
Hoovered up the first 5 and watching them weekly. Going to watch today's now. I read about the William Adams story donkeys ago and thought it would make a great programme if the Americans didn't get their mitts on it
 
Been curious about this show given all the glowing reviews but don't have Disney+, so bought the book to read to see if it might be worth getting a subscription.

About 250 pages in and really struggling. Not a fan of the writing at all - horrendously wooden, 2D characters and some of the clunkiest, most unnatural dialogue I've come across. Only ever given up and abandoned 2 novels in my life but thinking of making this the 3rd.

Anyone read both the book and watched the show? If I don't like the book am I likely to enjoy the show?
 

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