ANSWERS: 3
  • Feudal Japan and samurais. Good movie too.
  • It's about the rise of a Shogun in Japan, I can't remember what he was called but he was based upon Tokugawa Ieyasu (fascinating man), from the perspective of a western traveller. They made a TV series of it with Richard Chamberlain and the late great Toshiro Mifune.
  • The price of tea in China ... no wait - that was Tai Pan. But both are Asian period-pieces by James Clavell -- how different can they be?

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