I highly recommend watching shogun by the way. the new one, not the 80s one
Anon watches The Last Samurai
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olutukko@lemmy.world 7 months ago
lunarul@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What’s wrong with the 80s one? I loved that show
olutukko@lemmy.world 7 months ago
just clarified what version I meant😄 but I aldo read that it’s not as accurate to the book and has a lotnof stuff cut out
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Haven’t watched the whole 1st season yet but it does indeed seem really good!
My favorite part so far is when the russian Pringles guy yells “Shogun, Geronimo!”
frunch@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m going to watch this show now just so i can see this Russian Pringles guy for myself, lol! Not enough Pringles guys out there these days
Randelung@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Little disappointing towards the end, but all in all fantastic.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They are definitely banking on season 2
olutukko@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I haven’t got it to the end yet. I think I’m at sixth episode, sitill holding up really well imo
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
SAAAAKEEEEEEEE!!!
NessD@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sake? What’s going on? Answer me. Sake? Saaaaake!
abfarid@startrek.website 7 months ago
That’s exactly how I read it first, too.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I find it hilarious that this is by far my most vivid memory of this movie.
FilterItOut@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
I mean, I remember the cool part where the guy gets his throat stabbed by a broken pennant… And the part where the cranked minigun gets unveiled. Those were some well done scenes.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 months ago
People like it when anyone engages with their history/culture earnestly.
I think in this case you also have the weird juxtaposition of an American in the story of Japan moving to a western style system and leaving their isolationist policies.
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I like Paul Mooney’s take on that movie.
You’ll have to look it up yourselves though. My complexion prohibits me from accurately quoting almost everything that Paul Mooney has ever said.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I found this comment while looking for the quote.
The words samurai is considered the plural form. The movie is about Lord Katsumoto and his clan of samurai during the period in the transformation of Japan from a feudal society into a modern industrial power. Not exclusively about Tom Cruise’s character. Katsumoto felt that Japan was changing too rapidly and it’s losing its cultural values and traditions in the rush to become regional power.
Still not interested in seeing a Tom Cruise movie, but it’s an interesting insight that goes past the normal knee jerk reaction.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Still not interested in seeing a Tom Cruise movie
Cool dude alert
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Oh yeah, it’s absolutely a very interesting period in Japanese history and if Cruise’s character was used as a symbol of the fear of westernization of Japan post Meiji Restoration, that would be cool.
But he was just there as a big name for box office draw, and probably as an excuse to ditch a lot of subtitles. If I’m inclined to be ungenerous, I have a few other suspicions as well.
It’s kind of like Kundun vs. Seven Years in Tibet. But at least with the latter, it was based on a book written by the real life traveler.
refalo@programming.dev 7 months ago
The words samurai is considered the plural form
That’s… not how Japanese works
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 months ago
We welcome our new tiny European overlords.
amio@kbin.social 7 months ago
Really more of a middlelord at most.
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
NTR is pretty big in Japan.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
NTR?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
NTR is an abbreviation for “netorare”, a Japanese word that translates to “cuckoldry” in English.
Audacious@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Abbreviation for Netorare, which means cuckholding genre in Japan.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 months ago
I wonder if this also correlates to an increase in popularity of Scientology in Japan
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Isn’t The First Weeaboo a movie about a white American who is traumatized by and hates American culture coming to Japan and finding friendship, community, peace, love and happiness in traditional Japanese culture, with a couple of kinda cool action scenes?
Yeah, can’t figure out why the Japanese like this movie.
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Good luck trying 4channers trying to understand what any of those words mean, especially after the spirit of NTR has been invoked.
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
And that can be said for so many topics.