Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "The Drinker Recommends... Shogun" video.

  1. I remember two things: One, watching the original miniseries with Richard Chamberlain. It was flawed, but beautifully so. The original Shogun, like this one, was ambitious and sometimes its reach exceeded its grasp. Two, buying novel by James Clavell and reading it in three days (422,000 words for those of you who want to know). That's equivalent to the entire LOTR trilogy. If you haven't read the novel, do so, and read anything and everything by Clavell. Clavell started as a screenwriter rather than a novelist, so his novels tend to be very cinematic and adaptable. Clavell was the writer or co-writer of The Fly (1958), The Great Escape (1963), To Sir, with Love (1967) (writer, director and co-producer), and The Last Valley (1970) (writer, director and producer), among others. I highly recommend that last film, by the way (it's for free on Youtube).
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