Nonwhite people either ?
What? no Blackapanese?
There were black people in Japan at that time? Who knew!
I am sure he would approve of a white man representing Martin Luther King in a movie. LOL
There’s no sense watching anything that corrupts history with their own goofy modern wokeness
Oh gee the TV series didnt have any black characters or actors either
and there were a lot of Asians why would that be
and the main character was played by a white man !!!
aint fair !!!
Every time I see a mention of SHOGUN I am reminded of an earlier novel Daishi-San by Robert Lund, published in 1961.
A novel based on the romantic true adventure of an English sea captain who became the right hand of the ruler of Imperial Japan 350 years ago.
Had a black friend recently return from a trip to Japan.
He loved all things Japanese. He read manga. He watched anime. Loved sushi. He saved for years for the trip. Two weeks in Japan. Included Tokyo Disneyland.
He was not the same when he got back.
He said he never understood racism...real racism...until he went to Japan. He said he felt like an exhibit, an animal on display. He was stared at and most of them were angry. He says that at more than one restaurant he was ignored by the staff, especially when they were outside of the more urban areas. He learned a lot of Japanese so he could communicate, but he said they felt very free to correct him, when he saw white tourists also mispronouncing words the natives smiled and encouraged them. He couldn’t wait to go home.
He did say that it gave him a new perspective on racism in the US. We, he now says, are not really racist.