[TheForge] Entirely OT

[Chuck Robinson]

His tomb is still located on a hill in Anjinzuka, Japan near the Yokosuka
naval base.
Remember in the book  he was called Anjin San (Pilot).
Chuck
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>
> 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.
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