The show is great. Lead English actor is a bit unnatural in his delivery, but all the Japanese actors are superb and it is real high quality TV (and there's plenty of modern TV shows with high production values that I bin off early if the writing is poor).
I agree with that.
Nah, the medieval Japan thing doesn't put me off. Generally I love historical fiction. What puts me off is the book's shitty writing!
Stick with it and then read the other books in the series. I've not watched the present series but watched the 1980 series when it came out, I was lucky and visited the castle at Himeji where some of it was filmed in the 1970's.
Loved it, waiting for the finale but thoroughly enjoyed the 1st 8 episodes. That Sanada is a quality actor.
Yeh it’s a long ass book where ultimately nothing much happens, the whole thing isn’t so much about blackthorn but more how toranaga handles the whole strategy then manipulating and reading everyones motives. STill enjoyed the book when I read it years ago
One of the John wicks and the wolverine
I get that a lot
Such is life when ur Japanese I guess when it comes to Hollywood
Aye, better than not being cast at all I suppose.
Probably really lucrative tbh, if your one of the few well known/ better actors in Japan that can also speak English
Good shout. I wonder if they're doing a sequel. I quite liked the remake. Not sure if it's as good as the original though.
