Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3940256, member: 833"] [B]Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan [/B]is a really good docudrama on Netflix. It follows the rise of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu through their rise and ultimate re-unification of Japan at the end of the Sengoku Period, which was a 150 year period of almost continual civil war in Japan. The documentary captures the last 40 years, from the rise of Nobunaga, a minor warlord in central Japan, to the end of the civil war in the early 17th century. The book "Shogun" by James Clavell is a fictionalized account of the last 3-5 years of this period. The true story is wilder than any fictionalized account of this period. The political instability and non-stop fighting is more interesting and confusing than Game of Thrones, and many of the events seem more far-fetched. A hill tribe almost turns the tide of the war at one point; a dispute between Nobunaga and Ieyasu almost ends their alliance in its early days; Ieyasu kills his son and wife; Hideyoshi likely had syphilis or some other disease that affected his judgment and made him increasingly bizarre in his final years. A crucial battle in the period turns on a betrayal in the middle of the battle. I would be surprised if some of the events and characters did not inspire George Martin. Tywin Lannister seems an awful lot like Ieyasu, and there are aspects of Nobunaga that appear to be written into the Robert Baratheon character. A remake of the mini-series Shogun has been in the works for 5 years, but they should really do it as a big budget, multi-season TV show to do the story justice. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach