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Bald Move Prestige

Shogun (1980) - Part 1

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Fans of the 2024 series Shogun on Hulu/FX would be remiss to skip the original series from 1980. Fear not! Jim and A.Ron are here to cover it for your edification. This version of Shogun has all the charm of 1980s television, some differences in production quality, and an appearance from John Rhys-Davies. Does this show hold the same excitement? Let’s find out! Send your feedback on the original series to [email protected]. Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the Club! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I was also really impressed with how much they got away with in this show. Like I just took

0:15.0

it for granted we would never see someone beheaded. Like it would always be like a cut to

0:19.0

the side and maybe some splash on the ground. Huh, fuck, no.

0:22.6

We see someone full beheaded, the boiling scenes.

0:26.5

Yeah, and the one thing they won't show is the

0:33.0

suppucco which is interesting.

0:35.0

They just showed the guy's face what he's doing it.

0:46.0

Welcome to Bald Move Prestigeige the officially unofficial podcast for Shogun. James Clavell's Shogun 1980 on NBC, I'm Jim.

0:51.8

I'm A-Ron is NBC and I'm casting corporation brings you show gone

0:56.2

and what tonight's feature presentation yeah I don't know man I don't know man I don't know what to call this other than just show gun it says James

1:04.4

clavell a show gun they put we just covered all a show gun they put the og g and

1:09.8

show gun it just be shun without it.

1:13.0

Yeah, so we're here to talk about the 1980 mini series

1:19.0

after having just watched the 2024 limited series, maybe that's the distinction there,

1:26.4

one's a mini series, one is a limited series. I don't know where to start with this.

1:32.0

I kind of just want to get your general impressions before we go into specifics though.

1:36.0

Like overall, I will say we've only seen part one. I haven't I haven't seen parts two three and four of which you know you may have a differing

1:46.4

order of events here it's it's hard to know what is the official version of this

1:50.9

because it's been chopped and screwed so many times over the years.

1:54.8

But the ones...

1:55.8

Go ahead, go ahead.

1:56.8

As I say, the one that we watched had four parts and therefore we're going to have four

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