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"We live and we die. We control nothing beyond that."
"Shogun" and the forgotten depth of simplicity.
The show portrays a pivotal period of Japanese history, where hard-fought unification was at risk of falling apart, and the long legacy of feudalism threatened to reach out from the past and throw the country back into a gruesome cycle of violence. When John has a drink-off with Buntaro (Shinnosuke Abe), Mariko’s demanding and cruel husband, it has a sort of timeless masculine energy to it — two men competing in the kind of petty pissing contest that apparently knows no cultural boundaries. By simply sticking to what works without trying to reinvent the wheel, and by finding complexity in simplicity through the lens of character relationships, Shogun transcends the overly grisly, gory, grimdark “realism” of shows like Game of Thrones(2011–2019).
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