I recommend Shogun. It’s a political drama set in feudal Japan following a fictional not-Tokugawa figure and the English sailor who crashed nearby and becomes his good luck charm.
Portuguese sailor English pilot sailing for the Dutch against the Portuguese. Only two languages are spoken in the story, Japanese and Portuguese. Whenever you hear someone speaking in English, they are speaking Portuguese in the story.
It’s been a while since I saw it, but didn’t the Portuguese in Japan hate Blackthorne because he wasn’t one of them? And Blackthorne saw them as his enemy. But he was indeed speaking Portuguese in the story as he knew the language as part of dealing with Portuguese as a trader.
I have the nationalities wrong as well. In the book the pilot (Blackthorne) is british, sailing for the Dutch, in a clandestine mission against the Portuguese.
What I noted about the languages in the show was correct though. English = Portuguese.
I recommend Shogun. It’s a political drama set in feudal Japan following a fictional not-Tokugawa figure and the English sailor who crashed nearby and becomes his good luck charm.
Portuguese sailorEnglish pilot sailing for the Dutch against the Portuguese. Only two languages are spoken in the story, Japanese and Portuguese. Whenever you hear someone speaking in English, they are speaking Portuguese in the story.EDIT: I got that wrong.
It’s been a while since I saw it, but didn’t the Portuguese in Japan hate Blackthorne because he wasn’t one of them? And Blackthorne saw them as his enemy. But he was indeed speaking Portuguese in the story as he knew the language as part of dealing with Portuguese as a trader.
I have the nationalities wrong as well. In the book the pilot (Blackthorne) is british, sailing for the Dutch, in a clandestine mission against the Portuguese.
What I noted about the languages in the show was correct though. English = Portuguese.
The English sailor being a fictional not-William Adams, for those curious.