[TheForge] Entirely OT

[Andy Vida]

GHS wrote:
> 
> It wasn't Shogun. I liked Shogun, but not the same plot or nearly as
> full of symbolism.

	"Shogun" was based on the book "The Needle Watcher", the story
	of the first non-Japanese Samurai, Will Adams who also established
	the Japanese navy (I'm sure the US Navy has no place in its heart
	for him:) ).

	"Shogun" was OK, if inaccurate on many aspects of the culture,
	but I thought the movie was terrible.  Casting Richard Chamberlain
	was perhaps the biggest mistake, at least for my money.  I was
	so unconvinced of his being a samurai.

	I liked "The Last Samurai", though.  I noticed only one egregiously
	horrible breach of sword ettiquette and even that one may have been
	OK, given the circumstances under which it occured.  Otherwise it 
	was very good.