A Stick of Time
- Episode aired Apr 2, 2024
- TV-MA
- 55m
IMDb RATING
8.4/10
6.2K
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Outplayed by new alliances in Osaka, Toranaga is forced to carve out a new deal with a long lost family member.Outplayed by new alliances in Osaka, Toranaga is forced to carve out a new deal with a long lost family member.Outplayed by new alliances in Osaka, Toranaga is forced to carve out a new deal with a long lost family member.
Ryo Hayashida
- Tough Green Samurai
- (as Ryohei Hayashida)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"A Stick Of Time" , the episode title, refers to incense clocks, which originated in Song Dynasty China and spread from there to Japan and Korea. They measure the passage of time: minutes, hours, and so on and so forth, by measuring time it takes to burn sticks of incense. Case in point, was when Toranaga-sama lit and extinguished the incense stick, to mark the beginning and end of his meeting with Madame Gin, of "Tea House" fame. Even the use of the incense to measure time was a relatively new practice for the era.
- Quotes
Yoshii Toranaga: Why is it that only those who have never fought in a battle are so eager to be in one?
- Crazy creditsThe opening credit sequence is a modified version of a zen garden. This style of garden is often referred to as karesansui, which means "not using water."The two main elements of a Zen or karesansui (pronounced "kah-ray-sahn-soo-ee") garden are rocks to represent mountains (or islands) and sand to represent water. The sand used in Zen gardens is not beach sand; it is actually crushed or decomposed granite, small pebbles, or fine gravel. The particles of crushed granite are angular rather than round, so they can be more easily raked into patterns. Moreover, ripples in the sand or gravel represent flowing water or ripples in the ocean.
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It's Losing Me
Ok, I'm older. I've read the book multiple times, I've seen the 80s miniseries 3 times. This isn't Clavell's Shogun.
This is GoT - lots of promise but crashing and burning.
This is Bram Stoker's Dracula - a much praised movie, that deviated massively from Bram Stoker's novel.
We have 3 episodes left? Maybe I missed it and there's a season 2 coming, but this series is losing me. Seems like the last few episodes, barring a few moments, is the same actors sitting around in the rain in Anjiro mildly plotting, going over the same nonsense over and over. Blackthorne whining about his ship, Buntaro whining about his wife & Blackthorne. Mariko being a grump about literally everything.
They've accomplished almost nothing since the daring escape from Osaka - Blackthorne is still a useless, whiny "barbarian" where in the book by this time, he's much more accomplished with his Japanese, has Samurai warriors, etc. Him and Mariko are firmly in love -
I could go on and on. This had a lot of promise but started falling apart a couple episodes ago.
This is GoT - lots of promise but crashing and burning.
This is Bram Stoker's Dracula - a much praised movie, that deviated massively from Bram Stoker's novel.
We have 3 episodes left? Maybe I missed it and there's a season 2 coming, but this series is losing me. Seems like the last few episodes, barring a few moments, is the same actors sitting around in the rain in Anjiro mildly plotting, going over the same nonsense over and over. Blackthorne whining about his ship, Buntaro whining about his wife & Blackthorne. Mariko being a grump about literally everything.
They've accomplished almost nothing since the daring escape from Osaka - Blackthorne is still a useless, whiny "barbarian" where in the book by this time, he's much more accomplished with his Japanese, has Samurai warriors, etc. Him and Mariko are firmly in love -
I could go on and on. This had a lot of promise but started falling apart a couple episodes ago.
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- southside721
- Apr 3, 2024
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- Runtime55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1
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