Shōgun's Mariko: Translating Deeper Feelings vs Her Eightfold Fence | Explained
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- Shōgun, the hit new miniseries, populates its gritty historical drama with a number of intriguing characters, all with their own secrets and desires. Trapped in the prison of her past and torn between two worlds, Toda Mariko has to fight to keep herself afloat, all the while looking impeccably calm. Her life has been shaped by death and suffering, but through it all she remains focused on moving forward - though more out of a sense of fealty than personal desire. So who is Mariko, really? Let’s take a deeper look at Mariko on screen, the page, and her real life counterpart to truly figure out what’s going on behind her steely gaze.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:01 Her tragic backstory
03:36 Her powerful insight & intelligence
05:26 Opposites attract (...slowly)
07:28 A pivotal moment of mutual understanding
09:23 Mariko vs her real life counterpart
10:05 Warning! Book spoilers here - skip to next chapter to avoid them
10:52 How Mariko avoids damaging stereotypes
The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
This video was written by Jessica Babineaux and edited by Travis Martin 
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In the book, Mariko has a sense of duty that keeps her alive in a world that is her personal hell. She is the strongest character in the book and portrayed wonderfully in the series
I need to know if her and John end up together
@@VictoriaHatzson Mariko and Blackthornes love is unmatched in any of the other books in th Asian series
I just started reading the books, and they're super good. Mariko is a fantastic character
@@cwsohio so they’re romance books as well?? Love to hear that!
Anna Sawai is doing brilliant work at portraying Mariko. She has been a highlight and stand out this season. She has a quiet strength and intelligence, which is very captivating to watch. She is my favorite next to Lord Yoshii Toranaga and Usami Fuji.
I am watching this series as I am taking a college class called “Age of the Samurai”. In fact, every Thursday night in one of the classrooms, my professor (who is one of the historians interviewed for the Netflix documentary miniseries, “Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan”) even sets up a viewing of each episode after it comes out on Hulu and then we post a comment in an online discussion.
Thanks for covering Mariko. I would like to ask that you cover Fuji too. She has far fewer scenes and lines but has a major impact on every scene she’s in. She’s one of my top characters on the show.
I'm a big fan of the novels and of the 80's miniseries, and this newest adaptation is just killing it. Anna Sawai is a revelation in this series, and the writing for Mariko is sublime. I'm enthralled with every episode. Thanks for making this!
We appreciate your dedication and hard work. You'll always have our support.
As a professional legal and conference interpreter, I can say that Mariko is not a very reliable interpreter, as she puts too much of her own beliefs, interests, and criteria into her interpretations. A good interpretation must be accurate, and impartial. The interpreter must detach themselves from any personal opinion or interest. In other words, it is not the interpreter's business if the person we are working for screws up or says something rude or utterly stupid. I must admit, however, that Mariko has saved John's ass more than once by modulating what he says. Otherwise, I love Mariko as a character and admire her quiet, understated intelligence, resilience, and strength.
She has saved John's ass but also herself and her feelings, lol. For example when Kiku and John return from the brothel and Kiku says she wishes the Anjin comes back there, Mariko only translates "she's honored" (something like that), showing that she maybe felt jealous. I think the disparaging between what is said and what is translated makes the characters and their relationships way more interesting
Mariko is not a professional interpretator. This was made clear in the book, with the comparison with the Jesuit Priest and his simultaneous translation.
Thank you for highlighting this interesting character from this passionate series!
Could you please also analyze the Why women Kill series? It would be nice to understand psychology behind murder (Especially Beth Ann's guilt and self punishment from s1 and Alma's violent need to be recognized s2)
Finally! Yes! Let’s talk about this show!
Genuinely fantastic show. The entire cast are great.
incredible performance by Anna Sawai
This show is super amazing! I was worried they would do another version of the 1980s film which was… lacking. I’m so impressed with the costumes (historically accurate!) and storylines and characterizations
Am really enjoying the series, such a unexpected treat with solid writing (I've never read the books so I dunno how accurate the show is)
The show is more loyal to historical accuracy. For example, body modesty: James Clavel wrote that the Japanese had low body shame, but this was inaccurate. So the show portraits body shame correctly.
It is unfortunate that part of the ending of the Shogun series was spoiled in the video. The spoiler warning in the video; *”warning some book spoilers ahead”* does not make it clear that there would be spoilers for the TV series.
She is yukki onna
I love this show and I actually like all the character including Buntaro they are witten with so much depth.
Fuji is the best female character. Doesnt even speak the same lango but says so much through her eyes and body language and given everything she too has been through already
I'm glad I don't have to watch these shows. Thanks for the summaries & analyses
yah baby yaa i love u mirko arregato baby yaa
For you is Mariko Sama.
This show is the complete fantasy of a white guy from the 1970s. That would be par for the course in the West, except they make it obvious who these characters are actually representing in history. They then proceed to have them do countless things that not only they never did, but would not have done given the chance. Hosokawa Gracia, as a devout Catholic convert, would be outraged at having been depicted initiating an affair with a married man only weeks after having witnessed her husband fighting to his supposed death to protect them all. They should have wrote totally fictional characters in a random year of that period if the show is going to be total fantasy. Not even a disclaimer is run at the beginning, yet the show constantly has PR about its historical accuracy.
I'm just waiting to see how Mariko will die at Osaka castle...
SUBS not SUBS is the moral of the story ...
Can't for your video on my g.o.a.t yabushige
The present series is not Shogun the Novel, or the perfect TV series.
Instead, it is the usual meddling infantile millennials, who think they know better, changing everything about the NOVEL and the HISTORY the novel was about, to suit the modern tropes and ideas of the children who watch things while breathing through their mouths, incapable of actually reading a book.
I love how you completely missed the part where Mariko entered her marriage with Buntaro already looking down at him for not coming from a prestigious clan. You people really are misandrists.
Oh------, terrible husband? how do you (The Take) know that? Can anyone tell me what is her husband?