Blackadder from this series ranked number three in a list of the top 25 television "putdowns" of the last 40 years by the "Radio Times" magazine: "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr. Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?" "Blackadder the Third" is set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the Regency. In the series, Edmund Blackadder Esquire is the butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales (the prince is played by Hugh Laurie as a complete fop and idiot). Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no
Historical period drama films set in Asia of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—"Portrait of Hell", for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular setting. "Jidaigeki" show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of their time. "Jidaigeki" films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight", though chambara is more accurately a subgenre of "jidaigeki", which equates to historical period drama. In Japan, the term , also commonly spelled ""chambara"", meaning "sword fighting" movies, denotes the genre called samurai cinema in English, and is roughly