Feudal Japanese culture is shown in all its obsessively ritualistic glory — a byzantine labyrinth of excessive formality, an honor culture so strict that offense is worth killing — or dying — for.
Unlike so many modern films and shows, Shogun has no desperation to break new ground.
Mariko tells Blackthorne, who is distraught by the senselessness of the carnage he sees, “We live and we die.
Mariko is fearless, extremely principled, willing to die for her cause without a second thought, and skilled with weapons.
Whether you live in modern society or feudal Japan, teenage boys are still poseurs trying on shoes three times too big and pretending they fit.
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