• VivianRixia@piefed.social
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    3 hours ago

    I recommend Shogun. It’s a political drama set in feudal Japan following a fictional not-Tokugawa figure and the English sailor who crashed nearby and becomes his good luck charm.

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      …and the English sailor who crashed nearby…

      Portuguese sailor. Only two languages are spoken in the story, Japanese and Portuguese. Whenever you hear someone speaking in English, they are speaking Portuguese in the story.

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        1 hour ago

        It’s been a while since I saw it, but didn’t the Portuguese in Japan hate Blackthorne because he wasn’t one of them? And Blackthorne saw them as his enemy. But he was indeed speaking Portuguese in the story as he knew the language as part of dealing with Portuguese as a trader.

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          I have the nationalities wrong as well. In the book the pilot (Blackthorne) is british, sailing for the Dutch, in a clandestine mission against the Portuguese.

          What I noted about the languages in the show was correct though. English = Portuguese.