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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4894932, member: 833"] The book is awesome, and the show is off to a great start, although I have a slight quibble through the first episode: Torunaga (based on Tokugawa Ieyasu) was kind of the villain in real life, and Ishido Kazunari (Ishida Matsunari) was probably the hero, although it was mostly just shades of gray between them. The miniseries defines them a little more as good and evil, and Ishido is a bit cartoonish in the first episode. The Book/Miniseries is closely based on actual events that occurred at the end of the Sengoku period of Japanese history, which was a period of almost continual civil war between various clans. The actual history of the Sengoku period is NUTS. Look up the real-life father of the Mariko character. His name is Akechi Mitsuhide. There are many other really interesting characters from the period. [/QUOTE]