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by **Catch-up** » Tue May 19, 2009 1:14 am

I didn't even know Billy Connelly was in it! Maybe I'll give it a try if the library has it.

By the way, great sig! :lol:

by **Tonyblack** » Tue May 19, 2009 2:00 am

Thanks! I pinched it from Terry. :wink:

by **poohbcarrot** » Tue May 19, 2009 3:23 am

Tonyblack wrote:Susanne, if you want a really good read and to gain a bit more knowledge of that period before isolation (albeit in a novel) you might enjoy Shogun by James Clavell. It is loosely based on a true story.

Have to agree with Tony here. I love Shogun. I've read it more times than I've read LOTR.

And I enjoyed Last Samurai.
They made a film of Shogun yonks ago with Richard Chamberlain but it was pants!

(Believe it or not, I actually carefully-worded my initial post so as not to cause offence to Christians. Before last Saturday I never knew about the 26 crucifixions or Urakami cathedral and I thought it was ironic that the US, a Christian country, rather than take out Kyoto with over 2000 "heathen" temples and shrines, should vapourise the biggest Christian cathedral in the whole of Asia!)

by **Jan Van Quirm** » Tue May 19, 2009 10:28 am

poohbcarrot wrote:
Tonyblack wrote:Susanne, if you want a really good read and to gain a bit more knowledge of that period before isolation (albeit in a novel) you might enjoy Shogun by James Clavell. It is loosely based on a true story.

Have to agree with Tony here. I love Shogun. I've read it more times than I've read LOTR.

And I enjoyed Last Samurai.
They made a film of Shogun yonks ago with Richard Chamberlain but it was pants!

*rubs eyes in disbelief!*

How dare you be mean to Richard Chamberlain! And it was a TV mini series which isn't quite the same as a film as it's supposed to be pants! :lol:

I quite enjoyed Shogun the mini series actually & John Rhys-Davies was great as the Portuguese seafarer in that

by **Tonyblack** » Tue May 19, 2009 2:53 pm

If you ever get the chance to watch the Shogun TV series again, watch the opening scene (shown every week) of a ship in trouble at sea - you can see the shadow of a helicopter on there. :wink:

by **Batty** » Tue May 19, 2009 3:41 pm

Tonyblack wrote:If you ever get the chance to watch the Shogun TV series again, watch the opening scene (shown every week) of a ship in trouble at sea - you can see the shadow of a helicopter on there.

Are you sure that it isn't the shadow cast by an octupus, pirouetting from the water?

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