At the time Chamberlain was the king of the mini-series. I always thought Shogun was probably his best work.
Anji-son

At least NBC tried to stay as close to the novel as possible. If I remember it was like a whole week event as a mini series.

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Posted by Don Quixote

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Posted on 1/29/24 at 4:12 pm to CU_Tigers4life

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The 1980's version was a TV masterpiece

"masterpiece" might be a bit much but agree that it's VERY good; I read the book right after watching the miniseries and the adaptation is surprisingly close to the book.

I've seen the new trailer and will immediately say that no one can touch Toshiro Mifune in the title role of the original.

I liked the original and the book enough that I'm hesitant to watch this new adaptation

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Posted by tide06

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Posted on 1/29/24 at 5:03 pm to Don Quixote

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I liked the original and the book enough that I'm hesitant to watch this new adaptation

Hollywood doesn't deserve to be trusted with any sort of book adaptation at this point.

They can't produce quality entertainment due to hiring incompetent producers and absolutely refuse to stay true to source material that is almost without fail 100% superior to the changes their showrunners insist on making for creative or political reasons.

Dune is the last example I can think of where they made a movie that was both true to the source and entertaining.

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Posted by eiasjsf

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Posted on 1/30/24 at 7:57 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

There is a new trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOixbB_G-54

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This isn't Shogun. Looks just like any other modern martial arts movie where guys and gals are on equal footing in society and abilities. This is 16th Century Japan producers. Women made tea, food, baths and sex.

That trailer is confusing...Where's the ships crew? Already dead after being tortured?

Wouldn't be surprised if the Japanese girl becomes a Shogun at the end as that position was hereditary and looks like she's the Shogun's daughter. Hollywood can't help themselves.

Japanese women, especially those of the samurai class, actually did participate in some of the fighting during that period, in particular during sieges. Even in the late 1800's, during the events that at least partly inspired The Last Samurai, there were women who fought and died defending the castle during the battle of Aizu.

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