Hai, Anjin San! Me too! It took a long time for Blackthorn to get his Mariko San- as it took me to get my Bao Qin Song- - in Japan or in Hong Kong- Clavell’s books are fantastic!
I was fortunate to have read the book before the series aired. But unlike most TV adaptations, I felt no disappointment in watching it. It was visually stunning with incredible acting and writing. And while it was impossible to cover all aspects of the story they truly captured the heart of the story. One of the best miniseries ever made. If not for Roots, perhaps the best. And maybe the best even so
I had no idea that Moriko is gone this year, she was actually very beautiful and attractive lady. She will always be the best lady in Shogun in 1980. 🇯🇵😢🤕💔🤔😢🇯🇵
@@stevenbaer5999 yes, unfortunately she passed away from cancer in july 2022. if you watch her performance in the shogun series her english gets progressively better because she had a dialogue coach during the production. afterwards she mostly starred in japanese films and did some canadian and american productions. she was tall for a japanese lady standing at 5 feet 7 inches tall.
I was 21 and stationed in Japan in the Army when this came out. One of the lieutenant's received VHS tapes from her father from stateside and we had movie nights watching the show since it wasn't broadcast overseas. Loved seeing some of the places I had visited in the show since it was shot on location.
I was 11 when this came out. I never understood why I couldn't take my eyes off of Shimada Yoko... Some years later I figured it out. She was one amazing, beautiful woman...
You have no idea how beautiful Japan is, especially the people. When I was staying there as a boy in 1977, I was walking back to our apartment with my mother. We passed a small electronics store. There was a truck unloading boxes, stacking them neatly against the closed cage at the front of the store. Electronic alarm clocks, radios, televisions, the new Atari video games - everything just stacked in front of the store. I kept looking back, fascinated. When we got into our apartment I rushed to the balcony to see, yes the truck drove away and all boxes sat there, all night. In the morning I rushed to the balcony first thing. The old man was there, the cage half lifted at the front of his shop. He was going in and out, bringing in all the boxes. A teenage boy was helping him. Nobody had touched them. I am still amazed that Japan is like this. Everyone has a deep sense of honor, honor to your neighbors, honor to your family, honor to your ancestors who watch you everyday. Amazing place.
Yoko Shimada's performance in this series has always been one of my favorites. I didn't realize until now that she was gone. Her performance in Shogun will live on like a time machine showing how amazing she was as a woman. In recent years, I've almost completely switched from Hollywood to Asian cinema. The actresses are beautiful and accomplished, the plots are innovative, and there is almost no wokeness.
Atleast Yoko's Mariko doesn't sound like a non japanese speaking gaijin when speaking english. They shouldn't have casted a non japanese born actress like Anna Sawai.
@@CharlesRaines4946 I very much agree with you. "Annasawai" doesn't look Japanese. Looks Chinese. Japanese movements are something you can't learn unless you grow up in Japan. It's a daily body movement. I think Anna Sawai is a wonderful actress. However, she didn't have to be part of the shogun cast. The antagonist, Fumi Nikaido, is a kind and elegant Japanese woman. She also has a nice smile. It might have been better to cast these two the other way around.
In the book, they have mind-blowing sex and then Kiku watches him leave the Tea house until he is lost to view, with the whole village watching to imply that he was a monster at the pillow, to elevate his status.
I was born a few months before this came out, a few year later I saw it on TV as a boy and became fascinated with Japan ever since and only desired to marry a women from Japan which I finally did in June in Hawaii 2019 on the beach after meeting her in Tokyo in 2018
Someone tell me the poverty and loneliness isn't true. How terrible that she didn't live long enough for all her fans to come out of the woodwork due to the new series.
@@AndSendMe I looked up her biography. It's sad. She had some affairs, her career in Japan was flat, and then she did some nude spreads, the kiss of death in that nation. Strangely, her life was not greatly different than Erin Moran (Joanie) from the TV show "Happy Days". David Bowie was right in his song, Fame, "Fame puts you there where things are hollow."
It will be interesting to see how this character (Kiko) is treated in the upcoming FX series. They changed her ending for this miniseries. The samurai Omi is in love with her, and when Blackthorne wins her "contract" at the end of the story, and can dispose of her as he pleases, he gives her to Omi, and the two of them go away happy. In the book, Blackthorne keeps her as a consort, and Toronaga essentially orders Omi to move on; he can't have her. Omi squares his shoulders and marches off, telling himself that Toronaga is right, and having to live without that woman he has always desired so much makes him a better, stronger man. (I can't remember, in the book, if Kiko was as in love with Omi as he was with her -- it's been years since I read it.) It will be interesting to see which of these two courses the FX series will take, or if it will come up with a new development.
Honestly, both endings are good in my opinion. And both make sense. 1. The end of the book is about the fact that Toranaga wants Omi to devote himself fully to his duties and Kiku, who was still under the influence of her she-owner, could influence him. And at the same time, Toranaga needed a suitable wife and concubine for Blackthorn. 2. The serial ending could have meant that Toranaga wanted (knew he would) have Blackthorn dedicate the contract to Omi so that all the past disputes between these men would be settled and he could trust that there would be no disharmony in this province. Otherwise, moving the gift would be pointless and would be an insult.
JEP. Thank you, for telling me when. Yoko died. I,liked her. In the movie she thought Fujiko was so Pretty; but she did not hold a candle to the Lady Marie Toda Mariko- San. RIP. I, hope she knew the LORD, I would like to see her in HEV. someday....
I have read the book and watched this movie. If memory serves me , the sailor is granted a female servant and he gives her away to the one she loves and loves her in return. This is amazing to both. Part of the value to the Shogun, the English sailor was , was his foreign perspective that culture lent him.
Amazingly, the actress who played his love interest did not speak a word of English. She learned her lines phonetically. To do that with the correct facial reactions was quite the accomplishment.
I watched this show as a kid and I'm currently reading the book. I'm 3/4 through the book. It's such an amazing story. I heard they are gonna remake it. It's basically Game of Thrones in Japan, I suspect George RR Martin read the book. I'm looking forward to them making it a modern tv show
I hope they don't. This show by Jerry London was supremely magnificent! No one will ever match Mefune, Chamberlain, Shimada (RIP, my eternal Love!) and Maurice Jarre as the composer. They had better make a TV show from Tai Pan or Gaijin.
The new series comes out this year but trying to recapture the magic of the original will be difficult. Shogun introduce the Western audience to Japanese culture.
A family friend got my brother & I hooked up on anime a year earlier. I was a bit too young to stay up past 9pm. I only can watched part 5 because it was on a Friday night. My sisters told me what was going on the mini series.
Well, the one you are referring to is Yoko Shimada who plays as Mariko,the translator in the series, but this one is the one who plays the geisha. Fantastic beauty.
I was 8 years old when this first came out, and fell head over heels in love with Shimada Yoko, lol.
same I was like 5 saw her nude.. ended up marrying an Asian woman. Totally changed who I was attracted to for the rest of my days.
You and me both pal lol
Hai, Anjin San! Me too! It took a long time for Blackthorn to get his Mariko San- as it took me to get my Bao Qin Song- - in Japan or in Hong Kong- Clavell’s books are fantastic!
I was 11 and I fell in love with her too
You and me both I was 12-13. And this opened up a life long cherished crush on her. Rip Shimada sama
I was fortunate to have read the book before the series aired. But unlike most TV adaptations, I felt no disappointment in watching it. It was visually stunning with incredible acting and writing. And while it was impossible to cover all aspects of the story they truly captured the heart of the story. One of the best miniseries ever made. If not for Roots, perhaps the best. And maybe the best even so
Rest In Peace moriko Yoko Shimada (1953-2022)
I had no idea that Moriko is gone this year, she was actually very beautiful and attractive lady. She will always be the best lady in Shogun in 1980. 🇯🇵😢🤕💔🤔😢🇯🇵
@@stevenbaer5999 yes, unfortunately she passed away from cancer in july 2022. if you watch her performance in the shogun series her english gets progressively better because she had a dialogue coach during the production. afterwards she mostly starred in japanese films and did some canadian and american productions. she was tall for a japanese lady standing at 5 feet 7 inches tall.
It's Mariko, you dunces
@@JulieWhooly091 mariko is the CHARACTER. The Actress is a REAL person who passed away unfortunately at 69 years old. Yoko Shimada (1953-2022)
@@jephrokimbo9050 what are you on about? You and that other person wrote "Moriko" and I corrected that
A masterful program, with Actors that put you right there with them. Most are gone now. A special tear for Moriko.
Yoko Shimada knew almost no English when Shogun was filmed. She was a dedicated artist.
Yoko Shimada was so talented and beautiful
I can't belived she is gone... *RIP Sweet Yoko*
Iie! Sayoonara...
@@aqacefan It is Not a Lie! Shimada died at a hospital in Tokyo on 25 July 2022, due to complications from colorectal cancer.
@@JoshuaParris83 I never said it was a Lie, my reaction was iie (No!) That's a capital "I" at the start of the Rōmaji.
I was 21 and stationed in Japan in the Army when this came out. One of the lieutenant's received VHS tapes from her father from stateside and we had movie nights watching the show since it wasn't broadcast overseas. Loved seeing some of the places I had visited in the show since it was shot on location.
"Shogun" was what television should aspire to.
Good fucking luck with that in 2024
@@calebh7902The remake is spectacularly good.
@mubbles1066 yes, the remake actually superseded my expectations.
I was 11 when this came out. I never understood why I couldn't take my eyes off of Shimada Yoko...
Some years later I figured it out. She was one amazing, beautiful woman...
The best Shogun ever 👍
Such a beautiful lady, no wonder Toshiro Mifune had her as his consort. Such beautiful eyes and voice. I'm in love with Japan!
You have no idea how beautiful Japan is, especially the people. When I was staying there as a boy in 1977, I was walking back to our apartment with my mother. We passed a small electronics store. There was a truck unloading boxes, stacking them neatly against the closed cage at the front of the store. Electronic alarm clocks, radios, televisions, the new Atari video games - everything just stacked in front of the store. I kept looking back, fascinated. When we got into our apartment I rushed to the balcony to see, yes the truck drove away and all boxes sat there, all night. In the morning I rushed to the balcony first thing. The old man was there, the cage half lifted at the front of his shop. He was going in and out, bringing in all the boxes. A teenage boy was helping him.
Nobody had touched them. I am still amazed that Japan is like this. Everyone has a deep sense of honor, honor to your neighbors, honor to your family, honor to your ancestors who watch you everyday.
Amazing place.
R.I.P.
Yoko shimada (1953-2022)
That's actually one beautiful and attractive lady
Grace, Beauty and perfection. Terrific performance from all.
Yoko Shimada's performance in this series has always been one of my favorites. I didn't realize until now that she was gone. Her performance in Shogun will live on like a time machine showing how amazing she was as a woman. In recent years, I've almost completely switched from Hollywood to Asian cinema. The actresses are beautiful and accomplished, the plots are innovative, and there is almost no wokeness.
Atleast Yoko's Mariko doesn't sound like a non japanese speaking gaijin when speaking english. They shouldn't have casted a non japanese born actress like Anna Sawai.
@@CharlesRaines4946
I very much agree with you.
"Annasawai" doesn't look Japanese. Looks Chinese.
Japanese movements are something you can't learn unless you grow up in Japan. It's a daily body movement.
I think Anna Sawai is a wonderful actress.
However, she didn't have to be part of the shogun cast.
The antagonist, Fumi Nikaido, is a kind and elegant Japanese woman. She also has a nice smile.
It might have been better to cast these two the other way around.
This was very famous tv serie in Sweden 1984.i liked it very much
In the book, they have mind-blowing sex and then Kiku watches him leave the Tea house until he is lost to view, with the whole village watching to imply that he was a monster at the pillow, to elevate his status.
Yoko Shimada was my introduction to Japan. My gateway drug if you will. I hope the new version is good. This version was and is amazing.
died alone and impoverished, her body unclaimed by any living relatives.
This movie series was My favorite when I watched it in my teens
I was born a few months before this came out, a few year later I saw it on TV as a boy and became fascinated with Japan ever since and only desired to marry a women from Japan which I finally did in June in Hawaii 2019 on the beach after meeting her in Tokyo in 2018
I didnt know she passed away last year. RIP Yoko Shimada. May the winds carry your soul to its final resting place. 😥
Oh no!may she rest in Peace ❤️
RIP, Yoko Shimada.
Just read that Yoko Shimada passed away in 2022 at age 69 in poverty and loneliness. Very sad. RIP
Someone tell me the poverty and loneliness isn't true. How terrible that she didn't live long enough for all her fans to come out of the woodwork due to the new series.
@@AndSendMe I looked up her biography. It's sad. She had some affairs, her career in Japan was flat, and then she did some nude spreads, the kiss of death in that nation. Strangely, her life was not greatly different than Erin Moran (Joanie) from the TV show "Happy Days". David Bowie was right in his song, Fame, "Fame puts you there where things are hollow."
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I have the full set of this keep watching it beautifully made❤
It will be interesting to see how this character (Kiko) is treated in the upcoming FX series. They changed her ending for this miniseries. The samurai Omi is in love with her, and when Blackthorne wins her "contract" at the end of the story, and can dispose of her as he pleases, he gives her to Omi, and the two of them go away happy. In the book, Blackthorne keeps her as a consort, and Toronaga essentially orders Omi to move on; he can't have her. Omi squares his shoulders and marches off, telling himself that Toronaga is right, and having to live without that woman he has always desired so much makes him a better, stronger man. (I can't remember, in the book, if Kiko was as in love with Omi as he was with her -- it's been years since I read it.) It will be interesting to see which of these two courses the FX series will take, or if it will come up with a new development.
Honestly, both endings are good in my opinion. And both make sense. 1. The end of the book is about the fact that Toranaga wants Omi to devote himself fully to his duties and Kiku, who was still under the influence of her she-owner, could influence him. And at the same time, Toranaga needed a suitable wife and concubine for Blackthorn. 2. The serial ending could have meant that Toranaga wanted (knew he would) have Blackthorn dedicate the contract to Omi so that all the past disputes between these men would be settled and he could trust that there would be no disharmony in this province. Otherwise, moving the gift would be pointless and would be an insult.
No wise man would ever give up such a kind, intelligent and elegant woman.
Shogun was a very good show full of action and eye candy.
RIP Yoko 🙏🙏😢😢😔😔
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JEP.
Thank you, for telling me when. Yoko
died.
I,liked her.
In the movie she thought Fujiko was so
Pretty; but she did not hold a candle
to the Lady Marie Toda Mariko- San.
RIP.
I, hope she knew the LORD, I
would like to see her in HEV. someday....
Kiku-san eventually becomes his wife ❤
I have read the book and watched this movie. If memory serves me , the sailor is granted a female servant and he gives her away to the one she loves and loves her in return. This is amazing to both. Part of the value to the Shogun, the English sailor was , was his foreign perspective that culture lent him.
Amazingly, the actress who played his love interest did not speak a word of English. She learned her lines phonetically. To do that with the correct facial reactions was quite the accomplishment.
Mario was so beautiful. This woman was the farstest from his mind.
QUUE LINDA NOCHE
Applause for you richard
I watched this show as a kid and I'm currently reading the book. I'm 3/4 through the book. It's such an amazing story. I heard they are gonna remake it. It's basically Game of Thrones in Japan, I suspect George RR Martin read the book. I'm looking forward to them making it a modern tv show
I hope they don't. This show by Jerry London was supremely magnificent! No one will ever match Mefune, Chamberlain, Shimada (RIP, my eternal Love!) and Maurice Jarre as the composer. They had better make a TV show from Tai Pan or Gaijin.
The new series comes out this year but trying to recapture the magic of the original will be difficult. Shogun introduce the Western audience to Japanese culture.
And the real story is even better that this fiction made by a westerner (I love Clavel work)
A family friend got my brother & I hooked up on anime a year earlier. I was a bit too young to stay up past 9pm. I only can watched part 5 because it was on a Friday night. My sisters told me what was going on the mini series.
「タワーリングインフェルノ」の唯一の悪役。
Эпизод с землетрясением не нашел здесь. Анджин Таранагу и его мечь вытащил из земли.
Нашел, спасибо!
Amazing to know that actress barely spoke any English.
Well, the one you are referring to is Yoko Shimada who plays as Mariko,the translator in the series, but this one is the one who plays the geisha. Fantastic beauty.
So far, superior to the new one.
Blackthorne was hoping for Jacob Collier instead.
Great:-)
They always protray semi toxic characters that are bossy a lot and its getting annoying.🙄
Wow! The semen of Anjin san.
They got the cheapest kimono possible.
Thanks for the insightful input. I will direct your comment back to 1980. Hope that helps. 👍
only because they wanted her to take it off in most of her scenes.
They really need to get this on streaming.