Akrimaya : Agree!
kerfy : after arnie said "screw your freedom", I will never watch anything he is involved in again...
Piglet : I did back in episode 2. If you really listening to the dialogue, you pick up subtle hints...
darklighter1 : Contains spoilers. Click to show. Good show. Watched season 2 and 3 back to back after giving up on season one and was surpr...
random000 : Not a high mark for anyone involved.
Danfis : They need to remove the comedy tag. Seriously, in no way shape or form could this be consi...
yellow_rose1 : Even though it was inevitable. I am in utter disbelief that this could happen in a first ...
Akrimaya : Agree!
random000 : Saw this last year. Didn't deliver. A year later it still doesn't deliver.
chugga : polyglot but right!!
I don’t really understand the finale. So did “Anjin” go back to england? The show says he did. He even “fought” as a Samurai as per his grand-children. But Toranaga says he believes he will never go back to England. I just don’t get it haha.. Excuse my ignorance..
Those were “visions” of how he thought his life would be if he returned to England. He does not. His whole life up to that point had been about his own ambitions and desires, but with Mariko’s sacrifice he is changed, which you see when he offers up his own life to end the suffering of the villagers. With this gesture, we see that he has left his old self behind and has come to finally have some understanding of the Japanese and their customs. We see him surrender his old life and to honor his love for Mariko and her sacrifice, he chooses to serve Toranaga. At least, that’s what I got out of it.