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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 15 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
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| What is the main reason Blackthorne wants to return to the ship before they take him to Osaka? | Shogun
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to get the secret rutter. The stolen rutter was Blackthornes "death sentence" if it fell into the wrong hands
| How do Blackthorne and his men in the pit decide who is to be executed? | Shogun
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draw straws. Ommi instructs them that Blackthorne is not to be the one executed. However when Vinck begins to climb the ladder, Blackthorne puts up a fight and the samurai grab another man and take him to be boiled to death.
| What was the name of the priest who became Blackthorne's chief nemesis? | Shogun
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| What does Blackthorne do to show Lord Yabu that he distrusts the Jesuit priest? | Shogun
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rips the cross from his neck and stomps on it. We do not see this priest again. In the book he breaks it into pieces.
| What was the name of Blackthorne's ship? | Shogun
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Erasmus. Erasmus. You did pretty good if you picked this up from the movie alone! It's mentioned a lot more in the book.
Military ruler. The title "shogun" was bestowed by the emperor on the supreme military ruler of Japan. The emperor himself was a figurehead until political power was restored to the Emperor Meiji in the so-called "Meiji Restoration" in the 19th century. At the end of the series, Lord Toranaga is well on his way to becoming shogun.
| Blackthorne wants to open trade relations with Japan but finds upon his arrival that another European power has beaten him there. Which country is already trading with the Japanese? | Shogun
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Portugal. The Portuguese are based in the southern port of Nagasaki and their "Black Ship" carries treasure from the Far East back to Portugal every year.
| What is the name of the warlord, played by the great Toshiro Mifune, who takes Blackthorne under his protection? | Shogun
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Lord Toranaga. Lord Toranaga is engaged in a battle for control of Japan with his rival, Lord Ishido.
| At first (and arguably throughout), Blackthorne has a very limited Japanese vocabulary. He seems to use one word a lot - it is the Japanese word for "I understand". What is it? | Shogun
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Wakarimasu. "Wakarimasu" means I (or you/he/she/it/we/they) understand(s). Wakarimasen means I (or you, etc.) do not understand. Ikimasu and ikimasen mean to go or not go.
| The Japanese find "Blackthorne" to be a mouthful and give him a new name that means "pilot" (of a ship) in Japanese. What is it? | Shogun
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Anjin. Blackthorne is called "Anjin-san". Gaijin means "foreigner" (some people consider this term rude), hakujin means "white man" and "fujin" means "wife" or "Mrs."
| Who plays the Englishman John Blackthorne in the miniseries? | Shogun
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Richard Chamberlain. Blackthorne was played by miniseries king Richard Chamberlain. John Rhys-Davies (aka Gimli the dwarf) played the Portuguese pilot Rodrigues in the same series. Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews were in "Brideshead Revisited", another blockbuster miniseries.
| Who wrote the novel "Shogun"? | Shogun
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James Clavell. James Clavell specialized in novels set in the Far East. His other works include "King Rat", "Tai-Pan" and "Whirlwind".
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