Anyone want to see the TV series about the Sengoku Jidai era?

[Maxi]

here is the link:
Speak Japanese with English subtitle
http://www.dramatv.tv/watch-drama/gunshi-kanbee-ep-19-english-sub.html

The serie is about the life of the Kuroda clan, the famous strategist Kuroda Kanbei and his son Kuroda Nagamasa who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

[OuchThatHurt]

There is anime like The Ambition of Nobunaga only the historical figures are all female lol

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=534724480

[TwoHeavensAsOne]

I'd recommend Nobunaga: King of Zipangu, as it depicts the entire life of Nobunaga. From his birth up to Honnoji. The story is told from Luis Frois' point of view, so there's a lot of scenes about the Jesuits as well. The Japanese children that were sent to the pope appear as well. I should warn you though, that they have this fictional character called "Zuiten", who is supposed to be a seer for the Oda. He guides Nobunaga throughout the early parts of the drama, and gets exiled after having an affair with Dota Gozen after Okehazama. Then, he puts a "curse" on the Oda, and when the Anti-Oda coalition is mustered, he gets summoned back. Throughout the middle parts of the drama, he would continuously oppose Nobunaga for going against the will of the gods. But in the end, he realizes that Nobunaga has triumphed over him, and suddenly becomes friendly with him again. He accompanies Nobunaga to Honnoji, along with Ranmaru and the other pages, and defends Nobunaga. After the death of Ranmaru and all the other pages, he stands his ground against the Akechi forces (pretty much like how Benkei did) getting shot with arrows and guns. This scared the advancing Akechi troops, and Zuiten returns to Nobunaga's room, where he succumbs to his wounds. Nobunaga then commits suicide, and Honnoji burns down to the ground. The last episode ends with Nobunaga's allies hearing of the Incident at Honnoji.

[Maxi]

Originally posted by TwoHeavensAsOne:

I'd recommend Nobunaga: King of Zipangu.

The drama you recommend is too old man.
My recommend drama is just 1 year ago.

[Motrini]

Originally posted by Maxi:

Originally posted by TwoHeavensAsOne:

I'd recommend Nobunaga: King of Zipangu.

The drama you recommend is too old man.
My recommend drama is just 1 year ago.

Production values haven't changed that much (Taiga Drama probably even have a lower budget now since people have stopped watching them), so the year it was made isn't really a big issue.
What's an actual problem though is that the only subtitled version you can find is made of VHS-rips with very poor quality.
I have no idea why NHK doesn't try to do some international home video subtitled releases...

That said, I think that recent Taiga Drama like Kanbei are pretty bad.
They focus on minor characters, give them into some ridiculously idealistic and anachronistic personalities and make the entire history of Japan revolve around.
Also, tons of stupid love stories and pointless female characters no could possibly care about just to fill air-time...

[Steppin' Razor]

Originally posted by Maxi:

here is the link:
Speak Japanese with English subtitle
http://www.dramatv.tv/watch-drama/gunshi-kanbee-ep-19-english-sub.html

The serie is about the life of the Kuroda clan, the famous strategist Kuroda Kanbei and his son Kuroda Nagamasa who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this is awesome. Definitely gonna watch this.

[Nox]

Anyone ever see that tv seriers 3 kingdoms (2010), I would like to see something simlier to this but with Sengoku Jidai

[Maxi]

Originally posted by Nox:

Anyone ever see that tv seriers 3 kingdoms (2010), I would like to see something simlier to this but with Sengoku Jidai

I watched that 3 Kingdoms... it was poorly made, many important characters were removed such as the famous Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan. The series should have changed its name to Liu Bei's Life or Shu Kingdom.

I can't find any other modern drama of Sengoku Jidai. The one I share here is the newest one in 2014.
Another drama in the same website name Tenchijin portrayed about Uesugi clan.
A drama about Sanada clan is being filmed, maybe release next year.

[Nox]

Originally posted by Maxi:

Originally posted by Nox:

Anyone ever see that tv seriers 3 kingdoms (2010), I would like to see something simlier to this but with Sengoku Jidai

I watched that 3 Kingdoms... it was poorly made, many important characters were removed such as the famous Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan. The series should have changed its name to Liu Bei's Life or Shu Kingdom.

I can't find any other modern drama of Sengoku Jidai. The one I share here is the newest one in 2014.
Another drama in the same website name Tenchijin portrayed about Uesugi clan.
A drama about Sanada clan is being filmed, maybe release next year.

Not sure about xiahao dun but xiahou yuan was in the show tho only briefly

[Sr.Keitaro]

Originally posted by Nox:

Originally posted by Maxi:

I watched that 3 Kingdoms... it was poorly made, many important characters were removed such as the famous Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan. The series should have changed its name to Liu Bei's Life or Shu Kingdom.

I can't find any other modern drama of Sengoku Jidai. The one I share here is the newest one in 2014.
Another drama in the same website name Tenchijin portrayed about Uesugi clan.
A drama about Sanada clan is being filmed, maybe release next year.

Not sure about xiahao dun but xiahou yuan was in the show tho only briefly

Dun made a cameo to duel Guan Yu when he left Cao Cao but thats it.

[Maxi]

Xiahou Yuan appeared for less than 1 minutes defending his fort at the episode of Battle of Hanzhong, then that's it...

"REPORT! XIAHOU YUAN HAS FALLEN IN BATTLE BY HUANG ZHONG!"

[Maxi]

Originally posted by Sr.Keitaro:

Originally posted by Nox:

Not sure about xiahao dun but xiahou yuan was in the show tho only briefly

Dun made a cameo to duel Guan Yu when he left Cao Cao but thats it.

Yeah, I remember that. Guan Yu is too OP for him lol.

[Maxi]

Did Kenbei really made that huge impact for the Toyotomi to raise to the power? or the drama just exaggerate him?

[Nox]

Originally posted by Maxi:

Did Kenbei really made that huge impact for the Toyotomi to raise to the power? or the drama just exaggerate him?

my understanding of him is limited but from what I have learned he is credited with coming up with Hideyoshi Toyotomi plans to take over the rest of japan after the death of nobunga

[Maxi]

Originally posted by Nox:

Originally posted by Maxi:

Did Kenbei really made that huge impact for the Toyotomi to raise to the power? or the drama just exaggerate him?

my understanding of him is limited but from what I have learned he is credited with coming up with Hideyoshi Toyotomi plans to take over the rest of japan after the death of nobunga

From the drama, he is too OP.
> 500 soldiers defeat Mori's 5,000 strong.
> Devise the water attack on Mori's strongest defend castle.
> Devise a lightning fast retreat plan to defeat Akechi.
> Defeat Chosokabe and capture the whole Shikoku island.
> Defeat the Shimazu and make all the Kyushu's diamyo submit to Hideyoshi.
> Grand strategist during Korea Invasion.

[Oðinn]

Originally posted by Maxi:

Originally posted by Nox:

my understanding of him is limited but from what I have learned he is credited with coming up with Hideyoshi Toyotomi plans to take over the rest of japan after the death of nobunga

From the drama, he is too OP.
> 500 soldiers defeat Mori's 5,000 strong.
> Devise the water attack on Mori's strongest defend castle.
> Devise a lightning fast retreat plan to defeat Akechi.
> Defeat Chosokabe and capture the whole Shikoku island.
> Defeat the Shimazu and make all the Kyushu's diamyo submit to Hideyoshi.
> Grand strategist during Korea Invasion.

Yeah looking at that it is pretty clear that the drama is highly exaggerates his importance as well as his actual abilities.
Yoshitaka (Kanbei), while an interesting figure, seems like a minor figure during Nobunaga's time. As he is only rarely mentioned in the shinchō-kō ki (a chronicle about Nobunaga's reign, which is one of the greatest sources of information on Nobunaga and his retainers).
I don't have the greatest knowledge about the time post-Nobunaga, but I am fairly certain that all of that is just Yoshitaka's importance being exaggerated and him getting credit for stuff other people did, in order to make him look better.
It is obvious that he performed well in the Shikoku and Kyūshū campaigns seeing how he was given a 120.000 koku fief in Buzen after the Shimazu were defeated, but from what you are wrote it sounds liek the drama makes him out to be the main factor for the success of these campaigns, which is of course nonesense.
It is pretty much like Motrini said modern Taiga dramas greatly exaggerated the lifes of people, who really shouldn't have a whole drama series about themselves anyway (so essantially watch older Taiga dramas, because they are a lot better).