Furin Kazan - 2007 Taiga Drama

Starts in SoCal on 2/10/2007....

Official web site: http://www.nhk.or.jp/taiga/

From Wikipedia:
The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain."

Like many of the previous Taiga dramas, Fūrin Kazan will deal with the Sengoku period. Based on Yasushi Inoue's novel by the same title, it depicts the life of Yamamoto Kansuke who is known as one of Takeda Shingen's legendary strategists.

Cast:

* Yamamoto Kansuke: Masaaki Uchino
* Takeda Shingen: Kamejirō Ichikawa
* Princess Yū: Yuki Shibamoto
* Uesugi Kenshin: Gackt
* Mitsu: Shihori Kanjiya

From the NHK web site:

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Images from the web site:

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Cool poster:

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i hope Blekt isn't in every episode. :sweat: :sweat:
i may not even bother watching this one.

krim wrote:i hope Blekt isn't in every episode.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Quote of the day, people. :hehe:


Even in a drama from the Sengoku period, he seems to be portrayed as androgynous. :shakehead: :bleh:

i may not even bother watching this one.

Looks on the bright side: if he's a baddie, maybe the guy with the eye patch gets to slice him like a Honeybaked ham. :hehe:

Saw some previews after Dotch... Looks pretty good.

I also browsed through one of the pictorial NHK books on this drama... Nice.

Needless to say, Blekt looked out of place: most/all of the samurai looked tough and battle-weary, while Blekt looked like a geisha in samurai drag. :shakehead:

bmwracer wrote:
Needless to say, Blekt looked out of place: most/all of the samurai looked tough and battle-weary, while Blekt looked like a geisha in samurai drag. :shakehead:

A cross-dressing geisha, or nurtured samurai? :crazy:

thtl wrote:A cross-dressing geisha, or nurtured samurai? :crazy:

A samurai who spends his off-hours at the Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic. :hehe: :hehe:

Series debut tonight!!!! :victory:

Not a bad debut episode... :victory:

The historical travelogue at the and of the show was a nice touch. :)

bmwracer wrote:
The historical travelogue at the and of the show was a nice touch. :)

Yeah, I liked that as well. They did those at the end of every episode of Shinsengumi but I was disappointed that they didn't do it for Kyoumei ga Tsuji [/list:u]

bmwracer wrote:
A samurai who spends his off-hours at the Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic. :hehe: :hehe:

:lol:

that add was so frieky...

and when he says... "yes... beauty" scared the hell out of me.

how did he act in it anyway?

In the first episode, doesn't it seem to be an homage to Shichi-no Samurai? Especially the scene where the ashigaru surround the samurai, and the scene immediately preceding it? Anyway, looks like it will be a good show.

gaijin mark wrote: Yeah, I liked that as well. They did those at the end of every episode of Shinsengumi but I was disappointed that they didn't do it for Kyoumei ga Tsuji [/list:u]

They did it for Musashi as well, but there were no subs.

On to episode two...! :woot: :victory:

BMW

On to episode two...!

Did they show the whole first episode down in your neighborhood?

Up here they always cut the first and last episodes in half.

The first week they got to the 30 minute mark (sans commercials), just when the Takeda were digging their tiger pit ambush for the Hojo, and stopped. Then last night they picked it up and showed the rest of episode #1 which times out at a full hour of video.

I'm not really gonna watch the show until I've stockpiled a few episodes, but from what I saw while editing out the commercials I think this is gonna be fun.

The guy with the eye patch seems sort of like the anti Musashi.

Geezer wrote:BMW

On to episode two...!

Did they show the whole first episode down in your neighborhood?

Up here they always cut the first and last episodes in half.

The first week they got to the 30 minute mark (sans commercials), just when the Takeda were digging their tiger pit ambush for the Hojo, and stopped. Then last night they picked it up and showed the rest of episode #1 which times out at a full hour of video.

From your description, we got the same edit on the show.

Episode 1, part 2: :thumbsup:

This director really loves the old "spear in the eyeball" shot, ne? More blood in episode 1 than in all of Shinsengumi and Kyoumei ga Tsuji combined!

gaijin mark wrote:This director really loves the old "spear in the eyeball" shot, ne? More blood in episode 1 than in all of Shinsengumi and Kyoumei ga Tsuji combined!

War is hell. :beaten: