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Finally watched this show.
Having seen it, I still stand on what I said earlier on my post here that this is not by any means would be the true representative of our culture and people. While I really did admire and in awe for the good production design and costumes here (I think thats because Sanada being the producer really help on that front)...but story wise, and how the people behave and act (especially of how the show seems to be made with a prejudice that Japanese people on that era were barbaric), "Shogun" is just a fiction and a fantasy show based on our real historical event and figures.
I read reviews here that especially pointed out of how the women behave and act as an inaccurate depiction of how women would act especially on that era towards foreigner. One female reviewer has stated that she had an uncomfortable feeling when seen the scene between Kiku, Mariko and Blackthorne.
While other reviewer pointed out that the actress who play Mariko doesnt even look like Japanese (the sentiment that I agree with because while Anna Sawai is gorgeous, but I couldn't help to think of how foreign she has looked sometimes, especially comparing her to other native Japanese actress in the show), and what heavily critized her character is because the real historical figure that Mariko based on was Hosokawa Gracia, a daughter of the famous warlord, Akechi Mitsuhide...while historically accurate that she was converted to Catholic, but she was never met with the real Anjin in history, William Adams, (who Blackthorne loosely based on from), and arguing that she would not act the way she is like in the show given the graceful nature of Hosokawa Gracia was completely different from Mariko.
It is no wonder that this show is not as popular in Japan as it is abroad.
And we just see it as it is...a fiction and not the most extraordinary one on that as well.
*If you want to watch the most authentic Japanese feudal samurai show...I'd recommend watch Taiga dramas (a lot of them) and the movie, "Sekigahara" (2017), that adapts the same historical event as Shogun, but more accurately and more authentic.
Having seen it, I still stand on what I said earlier on my post here that this is not by any means would be the true representative of our culture and people. While I really did admire and in awe for the good production design and costumes here (I think thats because Sanada being the producer really help on that front)...but story wise, and how the people behave and act (especially of how the show seems to be made with a prejudice that Japanese people on that era were barbaric), "Shogun" is just a fiction and a fantasy show based on our real historical event and figures.
I read reviews here that especially pointed out of how the women behave and act as an inaccurate depiction of how women would act especially on that era towards foreigner. One female reviewer has stated that she had an uncomfortable feeling when seen the scene between Kiku, Mariko and Blackthorne.
While other reviewer pointed out that the actress who play Mariko doesnt even look like Japanese (the sentiment that I agree with because while Anna Sawai is gorgeous, but I couldn't help to think of how foreign she has looked sometimes, especially comparing her to other native Japanese actress in the show), and what heavily critized her character is because the real historical figure that Mariko based on was Hosokawa Gracia, a daughter of the famous warlord, Akechi Mitsuhide...while historically accurate that she was converted to Catholic, but she was never met with the real Anjin in history, William Adams, (who Blackthorne loosely based on from), and arguing that she would not act the way she is like in the show given the graceful nature of Hosokawa Gracia was completely different from Mariko.
It is no wonder that this show is not as popular in Japan as it is abroad.
And we just see it as it is...a fiction and not the most extraordinary one on that as well.
*If you want to watch the most authentic Japanese feudal samurai show...I'd recommend watch Taiga dramas (a lot of them) and the movie, "Sekigahara" (2017), that adapts the same historical event as Shogun, but more accurately and more authentic.
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I loved all of them, really.
