All the English she speaks in the film she has no idea what it means! That alone is enough to make me say.job well done! In in one very cool fact is that Yôko Shimada who plays Mariko didn't speak a word of English. One interesting note about watching the DVD, is the special features disc. There is no sense in changing all the names when the real story is so awesome in the first place. I do agree with Sensaiman that it should be more historical. And besides all that the story is called "Shogun" not "Pilot" which is why the story abruptly ends with Toranaga (Tokugawa) becoming Shogun.
As it is, you really get a chance to know the Japanese actors and the supporting actors because their characters are not our acted by Chamberlain. A better actor like would have stolen all the scenes. Having said all that, I think Richard Chamberlain was a fine choice and I will tell you why. I have not read the book so I can't comment on that, however no movie ever does a book justice, even a 10 hour mini-series for a 1100 page book! I remember it coming out when I was a kid, and I was not allowed to stay up late to watch it. My wife and I just watched the series again back in the spring. There is a good book called "Samurai William" out there, which has a pretty entertaining portrayal of Adam's life and that of the other English and Dutch traders who first arrived in Japan at the beginning of the 17th century.
Adam's rose form being a fugitive sailor to being one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's most trusted advisors, and was awarded the rank of Hatamoto, which was just below the rank of Daimyou, the local lords who controlled Japan's feudal society. I kind of dislike Shogun because Clavell for some reason felt it necessary to change all the names and fictionalize some of the events of Adam's life when a re-telling of his actual story would have been much more interesting. The story is in large part based on the real adventures of an English seaman named William Adams, who was the pilot of a Dutch ship that washed up off the coast of Kyushu after crossing the globe via the straight of magellan. I have a personal interest in it because I live right next to the castle they used in the series as "Osaka castle". They cut out so much of it to fit it into a 2-hour tape that none of the story made sense. I made the mistake of renting the edited version of the series, which was absolute crap.
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