In 1980, the 5 part, 10 hour mini-series “Shogun” captivated audiences.  Based on James Clavell’s best-selling novel of the same name, this ambitious production brought to life the story of an English navigator, John Blackthorne, who shipwrecks in feudal Japan, becoming embroiled in their political intrigues and violent power struggles. “Shogun” was a monumental achievement that captivated audiences around the world and remains a landmark in television history.

The year is 1600, and shipwrecked John Blackthorne (played by Richard Chamberlain), is quickly captured by local samurai warriors and brought before Lord Toranaga (Toshiro Mifune), a powerful daimyo (feudal lord).  He sees Blackthorne as both a potential threat and an opportunity. As Blackthorne struggles to adapt to the unfamiliar customs and language of Japan, he becomes entangled in the complex web of political manipulations and rivalries between the various daimyos vying for power.

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Lord Toranaga recognizes the value of Blackthorne’s knowledge of navigation and Western culture and decides to keep him alive. He sees an intelligent man, with leadership skills and  makes him a samurai, giving him the name “Anjin.” He also gives him a mere 6 months to learn the language.  These challenges are set upon the backdrop of brutal battles and betrayal in the picturesque landscape of Japan.

“Shogun” was produced by NBC and aired in September 1980. The mini-series was an international co-production, featuring a cast of American, European, and Japanese actors, as well as a crew from both the United States and Japan. To ensure authenticity, the production team built massive sets, including an entire village, and incorporated traditional Japanese huts.

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“Shogun,” the 1980 mini-series based on James Clavell’s novel, remains a groundbreaking achievement in television history.  They have just released a remake of Shogun which so far tells the story a little differently. But this romanticized version does a great job of it’s character development and is worth watching first.  Especially while waiting for the full release of the newest version.

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Episode 5 Final

Watch the 1976 mini series – Rich Man Poor Man

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Altered States explores drug induced, altered states of consciousness. Based on a novel by the same name, Altered States was written by Paddy Chayefsky. Chayefsky also wrote the screenplay, but was so upset by director Ken Russell’s adaptation, that he had his name removed from the credits. Regardless, the story is inspired by real life Psychoanalyst and Biophysicist Dr. John C. Lilly, who started isolation tank experiments in the 50s. The movie introduces the world to both actors William Hurt and Drew Barrymore. Hurt plays an obsessive self experimenting “mad-scientist” who combines deprivation tanks and psychoactive drugs in his pursuit to understand human consciousness. Drew has a bit part as one of his daughters.

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The premise of Altered States is very Darwinian, but I suppose what one sees reflected back when all external senses are muted by an isolation chamber, really depends on one’s underlying belief system in the first place. Dr. Edward Jessup (Hurt) has drug induced hallucinations that take him beyond the exploration of his own consciousness to visions of some DNA encoded memory. The more he self-experiments, the further he reverts to a prehistoric existence. This genetic awakening, also seems to trigger trans-mutagenic physical manifestations, transforming him into altered states of Darwinian conceptions of early humanoid development.

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The subplot of this film has to do with Jessup’s humanity. His intellectual pursuits, his loves, and family life. His wife and he are scientific colleagues, who drift apart as their life becomes mundane. It’s like a metaphor for an egocentric primitive nature that lies dormant until Edward’s experiments activate it. Dr. Jessop and his wife Emily, re-find one another, in a love conquers all type of battle, against the primal existence that is taking over Edward.

The appeal of Altered States seems to be in the musical score and visual effects that attempt to take the viewer his own hallucinogenic journey. Does it work ? Not without pharmaceuticals…

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The story premise is pretty simple. The hereditary owner of the summer camp decides to reopen the long closed location after years of neglect. It’s 1980 and he has advertised for some summer counselors who are willing to help him with a few repairs and set up to get the camp going. We discover that the nearest community is against the campsite reopening, they consider it cursed after first, a boy drowned in the lake in 1957, then two counselors were brutally murdered the following season. The camp has remained closed since. (Spoiler alert!! – Do not read further if you have never seen this movie, watch it instead).

We see one of the would-be counselors attacked just outside the camp and then we are introduced to the other counselors and the new owner Steve Christy played by Peter Brouwer. The sky is darkening with what appears to be an impending storm and Steve leaves to grab some more supplies. As the others are cleaning up Ned (Mark Nelsen) notices someone lurking around the building and wanders off to investigate.

Everyone else heads indoors, and a bored Jack (Kevin Bacon, pre Footloose) and Marcie (Jeannine Taylor) sneak off to have sex in the bunk house. Unbeknownst to them the corpse of Ned lies above them with it’s throat slashed. Marcie gets up to use the bathroom and as Jack is lying in his bunk in the afterglow an arrow is shot through his throat from beneath the bed. The murderous fiend then follows Marcie into the bathrooms and attacks her with an axe. The viewer is kept on their seat as the killer is neither revealed or identified.

Brenda (Laurie Bartram) hears a voice calling for help and goes out to investigate. She goes to the archery range and is blinded when the lights are suddenly turned on. Next we see Steve returning, it is well after dark. He sees the killer and amicably engages in conversation, only to be shockingly stabbed. Alice our heroine, played by Adrienne King and Bill, the straight laced counselor, played by Harry Crosby (Bing’s son) are now alone in the clubhouse and begin to wonder about their absent friends. Investigating, they find the phone lines down, that Ned’s truck won’t start and an axe in Brenda’s bed. Then the power goes out. Bill heads to the generator, while Alice runs inside. The window is smashed as Brenda’s body is hurled through it. Shortly thereafter Alice hears a vehicle and runs out expecting Steve. She meets a middle-aged woman Mrs. Voorhees who says how she knows Steve and his family well, that she used to work at the camp. She continues on about how her son drowned in the lake, because the counselors who were supposed to watch him were making out. She attacks Alice who fights back, knocking her unconscious. Their struggle ends up lakeside where Alice was trying to escape the camp. This time Mrs. Voorhees has a machete and when Alice gets a hold of it, she decapitates her attacker. Alice then collapses into a canoe and drifts out onto the serene lake.

Just when we think it is over…a grisly hand of rotten flesh comes up from the water and grabs at Alice. We next see her surrounded by medical staff and police asking about Jason. The cop explains that no boy was found, and she lays back defeated, saying then he is still out there.

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The story follows two youngsters who are shipwrecked with an old sailor. He dies after teaching them basic survival skills but not much about life. Left on their own and going through adolescence together, the pair eventually fall in love and make natural discoveries about themselves and human biology. They even have a child together. They were once eager to leave the island, but now ignore passing ships, as it has become their home.

At the end of the movie, an incident sees the family cast adrift. When a long lost relative, who has been searching for them for years, discovers their boat: they are not moving. Asking if they are alive, the man is told, that they are just sleeping.

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