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 11 months ago
lunarul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s wrong with the 80s one? I loved that show
olutukko@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
Little disappointing towards the end, but all in all fantastic.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They are definitely banking on season 2
olutukko@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
SAAAAKEEEEEEEE!!!
NessD@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sake? What’s going on? Answer me. Sake? Saaaaake!
abfarid@startrek.website 11 months ago
That’s exactly how I read it first, too.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I find it hilarious that this is by far my most vivid memory of this movie.
FilterItOut@thelemmy.club 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
Still not interested in seeing a Tom Cruise movie
Cool dude alert
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 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 11 months ago
The words samurai is considered the plural form
That’s… not how Japanese works
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 months ago
We welcome our new tiny European overlords.
amio@kbin.social 11 months ago
Really more of a middlelord at most.
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
NTR is pretty big in Japan.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
NTR?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
NTR is an abbreviation for “netorare”, a Japanese word that translates to “cuckoldry” in English.
Audacious@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Abbreviation for Netorare, which means cuckholding genre in Japan.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 months ago
I wonder if this also correlates to an increase in popularity of Scientology in Japan
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They’ve got their own cults to worry about.
atocci@kbin.social 11 months ago
That's what the Thingamajig™ was for
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
And that can be said for so many topics.