Shogun 1x09 'Crimson Sky' | First Time Reaction
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
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Join Arianna and Maple as they react to Episode 9 of "Shogun" (2024 miniseries), titled "Crimson Sky." In this intense episode, Blackthorne, Mariko, and Yabushige arrive in Osaka to surrender to Ishido on Toranaga's behalf. The stakes rise as Mariko faces a life-threatening situation, leading to emotional and dramatic confrontations. Watch as alliances are tested, and the tension escalates to a heartbreaking climax. Don’t miss Arianna and Maple's insights and reactions to the powerful storytelling, emotional depth, and gripping plot developments that define this episode.
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00:00 - Intro
00:17 - Reaction
34:37 - Review - Розваги
Give Anna Sawai, as Mariko, all of the awards!!!
It's a fact Asians are least likely to win awards or even get roles. Why? Because they don't have a powerful lobby like other minorities do. They are the least represented race per capita in Hollywood.
African Americans are actually overrepresented in Hollywood, they comprise around 13% of the population but have 16% of acting roles. Latinos comprise 18% of the US population but only have 5-6% of the roles.
Never did I expect the most romantic gesture on TV I'd seen in years to be someone offering to cut another persons head off, but here we are 😭
This episode contains some of the best acting of ANY series I've seen in a long time and its also the most heartbreaking!
Every time Anjin "tempted" Mariko, her father flashed through her, and she always chose duty.
This episode made grown men cry (sniff)
If it's any consolation the real Mariko's quarters is a landmark in Japan . You can see it here on youtube. So she is a legendary figure in Japan from my understanding.
I love that last episode and this hit so hard the girls just tapped out and called it immediately after it ended
Anybody catch she said "Akechi Mariko" instead of her married name, Toda?
Her maiden name and her Christian name. She owned herself.
Nope just you. Youre the chosen one
Chosen one, you are our only hope
@@Azabaxe80 Mariko is not her christian name, it's Maria.
Ochiba means falling leaves or something like that. Leaves falling on water. So the poem was a message to her old friend
Damn I didn't know that, that gives so much more meaning!
thanks.
yeah this was THE episode. anna sawai emmy reel but everyone was really acting their faces off, so good.
“hell is nowhere i haven’t already known. let it from your mind,” from blackthorne really stuck out to me too because after his pleading for her not to go he chooses to give her comfort and security at that moment so that she doesn’t have to go against her christian beliefs. he loved her so much 😭
Arianna had the only logical reaction to this episode. It took me an hour after watching to be able to form words. It was too much. I hadn’t realized just how much I was watching the show for Mariko and how unprepared I was for Crimson Sky.
Great reaction ladies. Maple, thanks for walking us off because I’d have been speechless.
One of the best tv episodes
Hosokawa Gracia, the real Toda Mariko, wrote the following Death Poem
By knowing when to fall
Do flowers become flowers
And People Become People
This episode is one of the best ones I've ever seen of any show.
Everyone was shocked and heartsick watching this episode in 1980, too.
The fact that John was willing to set aside his own happiness to help her just tells you how much he loves her. It messed me up inside
Not his happiness but eternal damnation. He would spend eternity in hell so she would be spared from it. Idk how deeper love can get than that.
The moment I realised what crimson sky really was I was stunned. Amazing writing and heartbreaking episode. The way she was telling blackthorne to just let go. 😢
Love this episode
I like how they shot that guy with an arrow before he got too much mc energy because he was Him for a moment
Mariko really went into that room and told Ishido "B*tch do you know who I am?"
Perfect. Genuine reactions, and the editor knew exactly which emotional lines to include.
Loved Maple noticing the leafless branch. She's such a great reactor.
This episode shows that Blackthorne is not an idiot in fighting, its just his style revolves around firearms instead of blades.
He times his shots because he knows he has to reload and he’ll use it as a club if interrupted…
10:47 my fav scene so far.
While the snow remains,
Veiled in the haze of cold evening,
A leafless branch...
And 24:46 Flowers are only flowers because they fall.
I guess Ochiba name meaning is some kind of flower and Mariko is a leafless branch. So she wants to say that how things happened before made them seperated.
This show is going to feel empty with the loss of Mariko.
Maple in 1x09: I think this show is about her.
Yes, you are 1000% correct. Trying my best not to harp on the irony that you caught onto it in the episode she dies in. Cause honestly, I was surprised at just how many people in the comments of Shogun videos just didn't get it. Shit, there was this one channel doing like 1-2 hour "reviews" just shitting on the show cause his favorite book is Shogun and that the show should be "about John Blackthorn blah blah blah". I got the sense that he's like all those anti-woke bros out there.
But yeah, by episode 3 it seemed pretty clear to me that the series was about Mariko. And with her "obsession" with death I could tell that she was a character of tragedy. I knew this wasn't gonna be a happy ending. The only thing I was holding onto hope for was that Mariko would gain some self-agency and allow herself to just soak in a moment of life's beauty. Her entire life she's been denied almost every shred of happiness. So it's no wonder she's like "you're born, life is shit, then you die". I wanted her to have 1 moment where she'd realize "life still sucks, but it can truly be beautiful at times & those times are worth fighting and dying for".
And I feel like she did get that moment. And it hit me just now. During her seppuku she used her married name. But in her final moment she used her family name. I had seen that before but it just dawned on me...I wonder if she did that because she considered herself divorced from Buntaro because she truly loved Anjin-sama & would've married him if she had more time. At the time, I thought it was more like "my family is Samurai and right now I choose to die like Samurai".
But now I feel like it's more about Blackthorn. She had given up the cross, accepted that she was more Japanese than Christian, and now that she's not REALLY Catholic she's free to divorce & remarry. Hell, I don't think the Church accepted divorce until the 1900s.
Anna Sawai was on the Colbert show and instructed how to do the walk. She is as charming IRL as her character.
"Why is his collar so fluffy?" Early 17th century style. And lace was expensive, so--a sign of wealth.
I was in the stage of denial after this episode ended for what felt like hours. This is masterclass acting by everyone.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show like this, that just kept amping up the intensity of the drama, episode by episode. It almost became unbearable towards the end, starting with Hiromatsu committing seppuku in front of Toranaga. And everyone went ”what the fuck is going on?!”.
It could all easily have just felt alien and incomprehensible to a modern Western audience. But this show allowed us to get to know these people, and fall in love with them, and - crucially - understand why they did what they did. This is storytelling of the absolute highest quality. (And that includes the stellar acting across the board).
The actress who played Mariko was in Ninja Assassin. Fun movie.
I've always wanted to see their reaction towards the end of Episode 9. It has the same emotional impact I had when I saw that for the first time.
24:55 " Flowers are only flowers because they fall."
25:13 " Life & Death are the same, both can have value & purpose."
34:14 " I, AKECHI Mariko "
Every time I see Mariko walking I feel like she is like floating on air beside them.
The ninja were there to capture Mariko and hold her in safety until Toranaga arrive, thus rendering her powerless.
crimson sky ,was mariko supposed to die at sunrise ,hence the incredible shot of mariko standing at the doorway looking up at the crimson ,sky at sunrise ,her death was supposed to cause a revolt in osaka from the high lords ,toronaqa knew ishido wasn’t going to let mariko get out ,thats why in episode 8 toronaqa specifically asked mariko if she is ready for her part after hiromatsu sacrifice ,toronaqas plan was to destroy his enemies from within long before they even think of stepping on to the battle field
As I'm sure you'll figure out, the idea was to kidnap Mariko and the other ladies, remove them from Osaka and then kill them, that way it could br blamed on the "damn bandits"
Love your reactions. I was crying all over again T_T
When she confronts Ishido Mariko´s kimono is of crimson color.
I knew this was coming and it still hits hard.
One of the greatest episodes of television ever.
Ep 9 is a doozy as you ladies found out. There has not been one reactor who hasn’t been shocked & emotionally moved by Ep9. Shogun is one of the best shows in years & should be regarded as one of the best remakes in TV show history. It hits on all cylinders & the acting is incredible. It’s emotional & thrilling without huge spectacular CGI fest eye candy battles but instead uses strong story telling & acting to take us on a moving journey.
Great reaction. Can’t wait for you to experience the incredible finale. This is one of those rare shows that doesn’t have a single mediocre episode. In fact it gets better with each episode as they each improve on the previous one like a musical crescendo leading up to the finale. That is not easy to pull off. This show better get some recognition & accolades for the work & performances of the cast & crew; it’ll be a travesty if they don’t.
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Yeah this episode is a real kick in the gut. Everyone involved gave a 5 star performance.
Blackthorne has conflicted feelings towards the Japanese culture. He admires the beauty and respect the culture often displays. However, there are times when Blackthorne is frustrated with the culture. The episode where the gardener was put to death for touching his pheasant because his words deemed that whoever touched the bird shall die. In Western culture, Blackthorne's words would have been considered as facetious, but in the Japanese culture, his words were taken seriously and had serious consequences. Blackthorne drew a line in the sand to show his frustration with the established order of Japanese traditions and obligations because he believes the decision of Mariko to end her life due to failure is inexplicable. That line in the sand is Blackthorne showing disrespect and it disrupts the ripples in the sand disturbing its balance.
13:20 Remember, Ishido was born a peasant. While on the surface, Mariko was reminding everyone who she was, it was also a dig at Ishido's honor.
Also...don't cry, ladies. Just wait until the last episode to see what Mariko did by simply BEING there.
I cried so much during this episode 😭
The writers of this show have set the highest bar for creating extremely strong female characters despite the marginalization of women in that time period. Everything done with grace, poise and dignity regardless of the situation. For example, go back and watch Fuji pointed to the space where the pheasant used to hang, or, who could ever forget, "Please ki11 him."
Most of the credit should go to James Clavell. The book was brilliant.
I think you might've missed the part earlier in the episode when the messenger came to Yabushige and gave him a message from Ishido, wherein Ishido said he could avoid death by performing a task. So it wasn't so much that Yabushige was the inside man all along. Although his allegiance was certainly always to himself and his own survival
Apologies, I just watched some more of the reaction and realised I misunderstood you both when you said that 😂
I spent a full day after this ep forcing myself to not believe the very thing i just saw.
I knew this was gonna be a tough one for you guys 🥹 just brutal. My favorite character going out like a boss tho ❤
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bles you two. it was hard for us all x
Yobushige doesn't trust Mariko translation 😂
Mariko said formally, “I am Toda Mariko-noh-Buntaro and I have been ordered by my liege Lord, Lord Toranaga, to escort his ladies to meet him. Kindly let us pass.”
“I would be glad to, Lady,” the samurai said proudly, planting his feet, “but without papers our liege Lord says no one may leave Osaka Castle. Please excuse me.”
Mariko said, “Captain, what is your name please?”
“Sumiyori Danzenji, Lady, Captain of the Fourth Legion, and my line is as ancient as your own.”
“So sorry, Captain Sumiyori, but if you do not move out of the way I will order you killed.”
“You will not pass without papers!’
“Please kill him, Yoshinaka-san.”
Yoshinaka leaped forward without hesitation, his sword a whirling arc, and he struck at the off-balanced Gray. His blade bit deep into the man’s side and was jerked out instantly, and the
second more vicious blow took off the man’s head, which rolled in the dust a little way before stopping.
Yoshinaka wiped his blade clean and sheathed it. “Lead on!” he ordered the vanguard. “Hurry up!” The vanguard formed up again and, their footsteps echoing, they marched off. Then, out of nowhere, an arrow thwanged into Yoshinaka’s chest. The cortege lurched to a stop. Yoshinaka tore at the shaft silently for a moment, then his eyes glazed and he toppled.
A small moan broke from Kiri’s lips. A puff of air tugged at the ends of Mariko’s gossamer scarf. Somewhere in the avenue a child’s cries were hushed. Everyone waited breathlessly.
“Miyai Kazuko-san,” Mariko called out. “Please take charge.”
Kazuko was young and tall and very proud, clean-shaven, with deep-set cheeks, and he came from the grouped Browns near Kiyama who stood beside the gateway. He strode past Kiri’s and Sazuko’s litters to stand beside Mariko’s and bowed formally. “Yes, Lady. Thank you.”
“You!” He shouted to the men ahead. “Move off!” Taut, some fearful, all frantic, they obeyed and once again the procession began, Kazuko walking beside Mariko’s litter. Then, a hundred paces in front of them, twenty Grays moved out of the massed ranks of samurai and stood silently across the roadway. The twenty Browns closed the gap. Then someone faltered and the vanguard trickled to a stop.
“Clear them out of the way!” Kazuko shouted.
Immediately one Brown leaped forward, and the others followed and the killing became swift and cruel. Each time a Gray fell, another would calmly walk out of the waiting pack to join his comrades in the killing. It was always fair, always evenly matched, man to man, now fifteen against fifteen, now eight against eight, a few wounded Grays thrashing in the dirt, now three Browns against two Grays and another Gray strode out, and soon it was one to one, the last Brown, blood-stained and wounded, already victor of four duels. The last Gray dispatched him easily and stood alone among the bodies and looked at Miyai Kazuko.
All the Browns were dead. Four Grays lay wounded, eighteen dead.
Kazuko went forward, unsheathing his sword in the enormous hush.
“Wait,” Mariko said. “Please wait, Kazuko-san.”
He stopped but kept his eyes on the Gray, spoiling for the fight. Mariko stepped out of the palanquin and went back to Kiyama. “Lord Kiyama, I formally ask you please to order those men out of the way.”
“So sorry, Toda-sama, the castle orders must be obeyed. The orders are legal. But if you wish, I will call a meeting of the Regents and ask for a ruling.”
“I am samurai. My orders are clear, in keeping with bushido and sanctified by our code. They must be obeyed and overrule legally any man-made ordinance. The law may upset reason, but reason may not overthrow the law. If I am not permitted to obey, I will not be able to live with that shame.”
“I will call an immediate meeting.”
“Please excuse me, Sire, what you do is your own business. I am concerned only with my Lord’s orders and my own shame.” She turned and went quietly back to the head of the column.
“Kazuko-san! I order you please to lead us out of the castle!”
He walked forward. “I am Miyai Kazuko, Captain, from the line Serata, of Lord Toranaga’s Third Army. Please get out of the way.”
“I am Biwa Jiro, Captain, of Lord General Ishido’s garrison. My life is worthless, even so you will not pass,” the Gray said.
With the sudden roaring battle cry of “Toranagaaaaaa!” Kazuko rushed to the fray. Their swords shrieked as the blows and counterblows were parried. The two men circled. The Gray was good, very good, and so was Kazuko. Their swords rang out in the clash. No one else moved.
Kazuko conquered but he was very badly wounded and he stood over his enemy, swaying on his feet, and with his good arm he shook his sword at the sky, bellowing his war cry, gloating in his victory, “Toranagaaaaa!” There was no cheering at his conquest. All knew it would be unseemly in the ritual that enveloped them now.
Kazuko forced one foot forward, then another, and, stumbling, he ordered, “Follow me!” his voice crumbling.
No one saw where the arrows came from but they slaughtered him. And the mood of the Browns changed from fatalism to ferocity at this insult to Kazuko’s manhood. He was already dying fast, and would have fallen soon, alone, still doing his duty, still leading them out of the castle. Another officer of the Browns ran forward with twenty men to form a new vanguard and the rest swarmed around Mariko, Kiri, and the Lady Sazuko.
“Forward!” the officer snarled.
He stepped off and the twenty silent samurai came after him. Like somnambulists, the porters picked up their burdens and stumbled around the bodies. Then ahead, a hundred paces, twenty more Grays with an officer moved silently from the hundreds that waited. The porters stopped. The vanguard quickened their pace.
“Halt!” The officers bowed curtly to each other and said their lineage.
“Please get out of the way.”
“Please show me your papers.”
This time the Browns hurtled forward at once with cries of “Toranagaaaaaaa!” to be answered by “Yaemoooooonn!” and the carnage began. And each time a Gray fell, another would walk out coolly until all the Browns were dead.
The last Gray wiped his blade clean and sheathed it and stood alone barring the path. Another officer came forward with twenty Browns from the company behind the litters.
“Wait,” Mariko ordered. Ashen, she stepped out of her palanquin and put her sunshade aside and picked up Yoshinaka’s sword, unsheathed it, and walked forward alone.
“You know who I am. Please get out of my way.”
“I am Komima Jarutomo, Sixth Legion, Captain. Please excuse me, you may not pass, Lady,” the Gray said with pride.
She darted forward but her blow was contained. The Gray backed and stayed on the defensive though he could have killed her without effort. He retreated slowly down the avenue, she following, but he made her work for every foot. Hesitantly the column started after her. Again she tried to bring the Gray to battle, cutting, thrusting, always attacking fiercely, but the samurai slid away, avoiding her blows, holding her off, not attacking, allowing her to exhaust herself. But he did this gravely, with dignity, giving her every courtesy, giving her the honor that was her due. She attacked again but he parried the onslaught that would have overcome a lesser swordsman, and backed another pace. The perspiration streamed from her. A Brown started forward to help but his officer quietly ordered him to stop, knowing that no one could interfere. Samurai on both sides waited for the signal, craving the release to kill.
In the crowd, a child was hiding his eyes in his mother’s skirts. Gently she pried him away and knelt. “Please watch, my son,” she murmured. “You are samurai.”
Mariko knew she could not last much longer. She was panting now from her exertions and could feel the brooding malevolence surrounding her. Then ahead and all around, Grays began to ease away from the walls and the noose around the column quickly tightened. A few Grays walked out to try to surround her and she stopped advancing, knowing that she could, too easily, be trapped and disarmed and captured, which would destroy everything at once. Now Browns moved up to assist her and the rest took positions around the litters. The mood in the avenue was ominous now, every man committed, the sweet smell of blood in their nostrils. The column was strung out from the gateway and Mariko saw how easy it would be for the Grays to cut them all off if they wished and leave them stranded in the roadway.
“Wait!” she called out. Everyone stopped. She half-bowed to her assailant, then, head high, turned her back on him and walked back to Kiri. “So … so sorry, but it is not possible to fight through these men, at the moment,” she said, her chest heaving. “We … we must go back for a moment.” Sweat was streaking her face as she went down the line of men. When she came to Kiyama, she stopped and bowed. “Those men have prevented me from doing my duty, from obeying my liege Lord. I cannot live with shame, Sire. I will commit seppuku at sunset. I formally beg you to be my second.”
“No. You will not do this.”
Her eyes flashed and her voice rang out fearlessly. “Unless we are allowed to obey our liege Lord, as is our right, I will commit seppuku at sunset!”
She bowed and walked toward the gateway. Kiyama bowed to her and his men did likewise. Then all in the avenue and on the battlements and at the windows, all bowed to her in homage.
She went through the archway, across the forecourt into the garden. Her footsteps took her to the secluded, rustic little cha house. She went inside and, once alone, she wept silently for all the men who had died.
-Shogun excerpt, chapter fifty-five.
Diegesis Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎
I knew this was the episode that was going to mess y'all up 😢
have you guys reacted to GOT?
Hey Chad, any plan for the next Sunday show yet?
Yup yup. The Bear is back baby!
@@Diegesis yep, yep, am still working through season 2 atm. Are The Sopranos and Game of Thrones still on the card?
@@KiTY89 I really hope so
game of thrones is impending. not sopranos yet but i'm confident we'll eventually get there
@@Diegesis the girls need some feel good content before starting game of thrones, but I’m reaaaaallllly pumped to see their reactions to every episode 😭❤️
The Lord Ishido, the Heir's mother are both commoners. Lady Mariko outranks all of them, no mere woman. A descendent of an Emperor and a samurai herself. Episode 10 resolves everyone's true role.
The Heir's mother is not a commoner, not sure how you missed that
@@user-du2py4ty2z そうですね、天下人になった織田信長の娘です。
@@user-du2py4ty2z Perhaps. But compared to Mariko, she is no lady ;-(
' I dont understand' bcz you keep talking while movie is running. Either pause and talk or say only whats worth saying. Youre welcome
34:15 when she was about to do seppuku she named her Toda Mariko, not Akechi (her afther's name) Mariko
I didn't like Shogun, every character seems like a prudish stereotype with tiny little variations between them.
Kubi on the other hand, now that's some samurai scheming with the full spectrum of human emotions, from brutality to humor and disgust.
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