#James Clavell | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

redsamuraiii · 1 day

Text

Hiromatsu : You think Anjin-san really meant to commit seppuku? Mariko : Yes. By the Lord God of Christians, I believe he made that committment. Only Omi-san prevented it. Sire, I believe he's really worthy to be samurai, worthy to be hatamoto. Hiromatsu : I didn't ask for that opinion. Mariko : Please excuse me, of course not. I merely answer the leader of my clan to the best of my ability, with our Master's (Toranaga) interest in mind. Your interests are second only to his. Hiromatsu : Are they? *laughs* Why so proud, Mariko-san? And so right? Mariko : Please excuse me, I don't- Hiromatsu : But even so, there are times when we need a woman's cold, cruel, vicious, cunning, practical wisdom. They're so much cleverer than we are, neh?

James Clavell's Shogun (1975), Chapter 46, Page 749

#james clavell #shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun fx #mariko toda #anna sawai #hiromatsu #tokuma nishioka #period drama #jidaigeki #book ex #book excerpt #japan

25 notes · View notes

onlyperioddramas · 2 months

Text

Shôgun - trailer (2024)

166 notes · View notes

thenotoriousscuttlecliff · 1 month

Text

Like most of the characters in Shōgun, John Blackthorne is actually based on a real person. William Adams was an English navigator who arrived in Japan in 1600 and quickly became a key adviser to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the future shōgun, who saw him as a valuable source about Western culture, weapons, and ship building, commissioning him to build the first western style ships in Japan. For his services to leyasu, Adams was given the title of Miura Anjin and eventually rose to the rank of samurai and hatamoto, with Hemi as his fief. He remained in Japan for the rest of his life. His memorial site was designated a National Historic Site by the Japanese government in 1923.

#shogun #william adams #john blackthorne #james clavell #history of japan #clavell basically just took the real historical events and put his own characters into so he could have a bit more creative freedom

94 notes · View notes

boardchairman-blog · 1 month

Text

**Shots of the Episode**

Shōgun (2024)

Episode 1: “Anjin” (2023) Director: Jonathan van Tulleken Cinematographer: Christopher Ross

82 notes · View notes

ariadnethedragon · 11 days

Text

SHŌGUN (2024)

Chapter 6: Ladies of the Willow World

72 notes · View notes

victusinveritas · 2 months

Text

Toshiro Mifune & Richard Chamberlain on the set of Shogun, 1980.

#shogun #james clavell #richard chamberlain #toshiro mifune

92 notes · View notes

philosophors · 2 months

Text

“The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous.”

— James Clavell

83 notes · View notes

floater0352 · 2 months

Text

One of my first (but hopefully not last) contributions to the emerging trivia on Shôgun:

Lady Ochiba / Ruri, the mother of the Taiko's heir Yaechiyo, is based on Lady Yodo/Chacha (1569-1615), niece to Oda Nobunaga and second spouse of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. We see her here as the primary moving force shoring up her son's position and the patron of Toranaga's rival Ishido.

Fumi Nikaido as Lady Ochiba, Shôgun, 2024

What makes the casting of this one very interesting is that Fumi Nikaido has played the actual role of Yodo/Chacha in a similar period production, the 2014 NHK taiga drama Gunshi Kanbei (which was primarily about Kuroda Kanbei, the strategist of Hideyoshi played by Junichi Okada).

Fumi Nikaido as Yodo, Gunshi Kanbei, 2014

While there's enough hype for Toranaga (especially as he is portrayed by public favorite and producer Hiroyuki Sanada--rightfully so), I wish to highlight Fumi Nikaido's return to this role as it does help highlight the differences between how Lady Yodo is portrayed in fiction. (It does help that we have no shortage of it now--even if it's mostly in videogames like Samurai Warriors, Sengoku Basara or the more historically-faithful Nioh).

The material we have of Lady Ochiba so far is of a proud, haughty, even disrespectful woman--and perhaps it's not exactly far off from how Chacha is portrayed even in Japanese media. To some extent, even Gunshi Kanbei conceded to this especially in the episodes I'm referring with this photo--what with it precisely being the moment Yodo is fearing coming to pass. A mother seeking to protect her son's patrimony (and by extension, her agency and regency), it's a universal trope in feudal drama. What Shôgun does not give her yet (but Gunshi Kanbei took pains to establish) is the recognition that she is as much a victim of the warring era, turning her into a self-loathing monster only able to survive trying to make sense of it all, and maybe recover their agency in it. Clavell rightfully gave it to his main focus character, Lady Mariko (played very layered and well by Anna Sawai compared to her more recent outings--herself based on Hosokawa Gracia).

It truly amazes me that 10 years has yet to make much of a difference for Fumi Nikaido and this role. The woman whose position at the top was only made possible by misery and her playing by the cruel game of chaos, she portrays both versions with the edge, anxiety and palpable will of a woman who's lost everything before and is at the doorstep of losing them again.

#shôgun #shogun #samurai #shogun fx #shôgun fx #shôgun 2024 #shogun 2024 #fumi nikaido #chacha #lady yodo #yodo-dono #ochiba no kata #james clavell #lady ochiba

98 notes · View notes

diosa-loba · 2 months

Text

“It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only god knows where.”

― James Clavell, Shōgun

#shogun #james clavell

56 notes · View notes

k-wame · 9 months

Text

George Segal as Corporal King & James Fox as Flight Lt. Peter Marlowe 1965 · KING RAT · dir. Bryan Forbes · WWII · LGBTQ+

116 notes · View notes

80smovies · 11 days

Text

#The Fly #The Fly 1986 #The Fly 1958 #Return of the Fly #Vincent Price #Kurt Neumann #James Clavell #George Langelaan #David Cronenberg #Charles Edward Pogue #Edward Bernds #80s

38 notes · View notes

redsamuraiii · 1 month

Text

James Clavell's Shogun (2024) & Shogun (1980)

I love them both. They're both great in different ways!

#james clavell #shogun #shogun fx #shogun 2024 #shogun 1980 #anna sawai #cosmo jarvis #hiroyuki sanada #moeka hoshi #yoko shimada #richard chamberlain #hiromi senno #toshiro mifune #jidaigeki #japan

251 notes · View notes

dgct2 · 2 months

Text

Destiny. We all have a moment that changes us.

When I was a kid my mom and I watched the Shogun miniseries with Richard Chamberlain. She absolutely adored him. I became entranced by the world. The moment changed my life. When Blackthorne learns Japanese from Mariko, that is me learning right along with him. It is because of this series that I eventually studied Japanese and karate.

I remember inhaling Shogun and then the rest of the Japan series by James Clavell. Thankfully I grew up in a house where books were celebrated. My parents had a library that covered two 20' long walls top to bottom. Hundreds of books that I could get lost in. It was a dream come true.

Fast forward 40 years and FX has done a remake of Shogun. To say that I was nervous and had high hopes would be an understatement. Just finished watching the first two episodes and all I can say so far is that it has exceeded my expectations. The music. The scenery. The costumes. The details that bring a book to life. This series has it in spades. It is going to be a masterpiece. Go check it out if you get a chance. You can watch the series on FX, Hulu, and Disney+.

#shogun #book worm #reading #movies #hiroyuki sanada #james clavell #random posts about me #japanese #karate #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun 1980

37 notes · View notes

beatrixacs · 1 day

Text

The way Blackthorne drools over Mariko from the very first moment as he wonders whether she is married and what she would be like in bed was exactly what I wanted from the book 🤗

#shogun #shogun book #james clavell #john blackthorne #toda mariko #john x mariko #blackthorne x mariko

11 notes · View notes

boardchairman-blog · 21 days

Text