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A nitpick, maybe, but one thing that bothered me about Shōgun was that it wasn't filmed in Asia. The landscape, plant life, and climate was all wrong. All that effort spent on authenticity, and it was filmed in front of an inauthentic backdrop.

Plus I live in the Pacific NW, which is where most of Shōgun was filmed, so seeing my "backyard" tended to pull me out of the fantasy.

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They originally intended to shoot in Japan but couldn’t because of Covid. I thought the foliage and coastline were reasonably close to parts of Japan’s (I’ve been both there and to the Pacific NW).

I experienced what you’re describing when Power of the Dog tried to pass New Zealand off as Montana though.

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