>be blackthorne >somehow avoid gruesome torture and execution on arrival >get to meet the shogun and become an advisor >get rewarded with not one, not two, but THREE beautiful women
how insanely lucky was blackthrone? it beggars belief
>>214281025
It wasn't just luck, he was skilled. He could read a map and understood geography better than anyone in the Japans, he could pilot any ship, knew how to use cannons, had experience building ships too, he spoke like five languages and he hated Catholics, besides the Catholic Japanese lady he was fucking.
>>214281910
In the book there's a bunch more guys involved in the fight and buntaro san hooks up with some of them and has a running fight over miles, losing guys the whole way until it's just him.
>>214282127
it's for a role, he's playing lafcadio hearn who was one of the first westerners to translate and publish japanese literature overseas and had a fucked up eye irl
>>214282148 >the japans has plummeting birth rates >the west has plummeting birth rates
why don't we breed with our yellow friends to fix the population crisis instead of importing infinity indians?
>>214282432 >>214282498
In the other books there's speculation on the life of Blackthorne Post shogun.
So they can take those ideas and part of the life of William Adams to create material for the show.
Also should Shogun actors play the descendants of their characters when the other books are adapted?
>>214281025
He was lucky but the entire series tries to paint him as an intelligent survivor that gets success deliberately because he exploits advantages and think very actively. Like in the book it opens with nearly everyone on the ship rotting from scurvy/starvation and in his internal monologue he notes he's one of the only guys that still has all his teeth because he was starvation mode rationing his food from the get go.
It should be noted the original author was a POW of the Japanese in WWII. This seems to have left an effect on him and resulted in a lifetime of stories about western men surviving oriental cruelties and being rewarded with prime yellow pussy. Wonder what happened in that prison.
>>214284572
In the book they tell a story about a group of Korean and Chinese entertainers who are threatened by the Taiko.
They said that Toranaga would die and ishido would die very old.
They should the scene then show the fate of ishido after the battle and how he was buried with only his head outside the earth.
I forgot to say that they were all types of entertainers and among them fortune tellers that's why there's this so called prophecy is twisted by Toranaga.
>>214280885 (OP)
That's no jap. that's the most hong kong lookin ass face i've ever seen. I would bet $10 this chick's name is anna or some shit like that too