Re: Taiga Drama Videos

| From: "William&Mikiko Letham" <mickey.letham@...>

Thanks!

1995 Hachi Dai Shogun Yoshimune - OK
1996 Hideyoshi - Great, some non-historical bits added for drama.
1997 Mori Motonari - OK
1998 Tokugawa Yoshinobu - OK
1999 Genroku Ryoran (Chushingura yet again!!!!!) - Great, with some
pretty silly stuff as well.
2000 Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (first 3 Tokugawa Shoguns) - Good
2001 Hojo Tokimune - Great! Unusual period for a Taiga drama with great
customing and more strange locations than usual.
2002 Toshiie to Matsu - Return to the samurai soap opera that some of
the earlier Taiga dramas were. OK
2003 Musashi - Last episode just aired, totally awesome, but then I love
chanbara.

If you can find some to rent or if you can buy the condensed versions of
any of these I think you will enjoy them. The older samurai soaps were a
bit err.. soapier so I usually didn't watch them.

Jim Eckman

Has anyone read Shogun or Gai-jin? These are old
novels by James Clavell.

I find that he has been able to intertwine his fiction
with historical fact (up to a certain point)in his
work on Asian sagas. And more importantly, the new
movie, The Last Samurai's Character, Aldrin, is very
similar to the lead character of Shogun, Anjin-san.
This makes the Tom Cruise version dated in terms of
story line for those that have read Clavell's books.

Any comments? Violent reactions?

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I've read Shogun, the book was pretty good, well,
that's what I thought.


--- Bojo <boatdrinks10@...> wrote:

>
> Has anyone read Shogun or Gai-jin? These are old
> novels by James Clavell.
>
> I find that he has been able to intertwine his
> fiction
> with historical fact (up to a certain point)in his
> work on Asian sagas. And more importantly, the new
> movie, The Last Samurai's Character, Aldrin, is very
> similar to the lead character of Shogun, Anjin-san.
> This makes the Tom Cruise version dated in terms of
> story line for those that have read Clavell's books.
>
> Any comments? Violent reactions?
>
> __________________________________
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the book i have never read but the series i thought was quit interesting.
-Mr.Matt13


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What's the other books based on the samurai have you
read before?


--- Mmupton1@... wrote:

> the book i have never read but the series i thought
> was quit interesting.
> -Mr.Matt13
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
>

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