To see the 1980 miniseries in its entirety go below. Pretty good in the day.
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The book is fantastic if you have not read it, highly reccomend. i really like how the author did the ending.
This was one of the first novels I read after high school. Not sure how historically accurate it is, but the depiction of the Samurai and how well trained they were is very well done.
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Have not seen the movie series, but really looking forward to watching this.
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@NightHawk999 The Daily Motion clips do not flow the way it does in the earlier one I posted, however, both are good resources. The book was terrific, I agree. I visited some of the places from the story when I was stationed in Japan. There is also a tangential connection to the Alamo that I discovered when living in San Antonio..
Clavell’s later books about Hong Kong are also excellent reading.
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I dont like the water marks either, or quality, but it looks like all the episodes are posted there, go off the numbers in the titles.
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Rewatched it on the Internet Archive, AD free, (compressed into 4, 2 hr+ episodes) and it was very good. Last viewed it in 1980 and it holds up well. Good video quality. I loved the book, but it is an overwhelming read, so well written you want to go slow. As I recall, it was the original series that popularized Ninjas. Looking forward to the new mini series version next week.
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Great mind thinks alike
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