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TechnoTV - Shogun (2 Hour Feature)
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Yôko Shimada, Toshirô Mifune, Frankie Sakai, Alan Badel
Directed By: Jerry London
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300214149
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300214141
Label: Paramount Home Video
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Home Video
Release Date: 1994-01-26
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1980-09-15
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Summary: shogun dvd set
Comment: I thought the dvd version (4 dvd's)would be the complete miniseries but I was wrong. Many of the scenes I remember from the original NBC airing have been cut out. One is where the samurai in the fish pit with Blackthorn and his crew asks Blackthorn to kill him and, having been refused, tries to kill himself. That was the first scene that I noticed missing with many more to follow. Why the hell couldn't they include ALL the scenes in a dvd set? That's why we buy dvd sets in the first place - to get a complete version and maybe some extras.
Go to the library where you can check it out for free.
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Summary: SHOGUN
Comment: Based on the real life diary of Will Adams ( very boring) , the real Anjin san, Clavell makes the tale come alive! It also makes reading the book "Shogun" exciting. It inspired me to travel to Japan and follow Anjin's adventure.
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Summary: Mesmerizing story
Comment: Shogun is one of the best adaptations of a literary bestseller to the small screen. Superb acting, great scenery and great suspense story.
Too bad that one of the 5 discs is flawed. The picture stalls and there is no way to continue watching unless the skip button is used causing that a considerable part of the film is not possible to view.
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Summary: Outstanding Movie!
Comment: Anyone that has seen Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai will love this movie. I actually think Sho Gun is better. Richard Chamberlain does an excellent job. I highly recommend this movie.
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Summary: Powerful Movie
Comment: The movie Shogun shows the true side of the Japanese culture during the 17th century and I have yet to find anything that is close to this production.
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Editorial Reviews:
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What better way to escape from the onslaught of so-called reality television than to sail away with Richard Chamberlain to "the Japans" for a little samurai action and some discreet "pillowing"? From the golden age of the miniseries comes this television benchmark, the 10-hour, Golden Globe-winning saga based on James Clavell's bestselling epic. In his award-winning performance, Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, the 17th-century English navigator on a Dutch trading ship. A storm runs the ship aground off the coast of Japan, a "torn and cruelly divided country" locked in a power struggle between Toranaga (the venerable Toshiro Mifune) and Ishido, two warlords who would be Shogun. Blackthorne gets over his initial culture shock ("I piss on you and your country," he defiantly proclaims to his samurai captors, which to his humiliation turns out to be an unfortunate choice of words) to become a trusted ally of Toranaga and the lover of the beautiful interpreter Lady Mariko (Yoko Shimada). Their forbidden, ill-fated romance--and Blackthorne's total assimilation into Japanese culture--is set against political intrigue as Toranaga prepares for the inevitable showdown with Ishido, and Blackthorne's growing influence threatens the local Jesuits who had built up a lucrative trade monopoly. Shogun was a production blessed with good karma, and it remains an awesome achievement from a bygone era when the miniseries was king. --Donald Liebenson
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