Hiroyuki Sanada
Lord Yoshii Toranaga
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- 1. Anjin Feb 27, 2024
- Destinies converge in Japan after a barbarian ship washes ashore in a poor fishing village.
- 2. Servants of Two Masters Feb 27, 2024
- Blackthorne's arrival in Osaka stirs up a hornet's nest of rivalries; Mariko is trapped.
- 3. Tomorrow Is Tomorrow Mar 5, 2024
- Blackthorne survives a brazen assassination attempt; Toranaga must ferry his allies out of Osaka.
Release. February 27. ( 2024-02-27) –. April 23, 2024. ( 2024-04-23) Shōgun is an American historical drama television miniseries created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks. It is based on the 1975 novel by James Clavell, which was previously adapted into a 1980 miniseries. Its ensemble cast includes Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai ...
Shogun (English: / ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ ʌ n / SHOH-gun; Japanese: 将軍, romanized: shōgun, pronounced [ɕoːɡɯɴ] ⓘ), officially sei-i taishōgun (征夷大将軍, "Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians"), was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868.
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Shōgun: With Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Yûki Kedôin. When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, Lord Yoshii Toranaga discovers secrets that could tip the scales of power and devastate his enemies.
- Adventure, Drama, History
- Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Tadanobu Asano
- 2023
- 2 min
Learn about the history and meaning of shogun, the title given to the hereditary military dictators of Japan. Find out who were the most influential shoguns and how they shaped Japan's culture and politics.
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Set in feudal Japan before the pivotal Battle of Sekigahara of 1600 helped usher in the Edo period, Shōgun details how Lord Toranaga, loosely based on daimyō Tokugawa Ieyasu, set the stage to become Shogun through early moves coinciding with and facilitated by a newly arrived English sailor John Blackthorne, broadly patterned after the Japanese exp...
At the end of a long voyage claiming many lives, including its captain, the Erasmus—secretly sent to plunder and forge military alliances to disrupt and take over Portugal's lucrative East Asian trade—is marooned in Izu's peninsular harbor. The first Northern Europeans to reach Japan, the surviving Dutch crew and English pilot Blackthorne are impri...
Shogun is a work of historical fiction based upon the power struggle between the successors of Toyotomi Hideyoshi that led to the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate. Clavell based each character on a historical figure, but changed their names in order to add further intrigue to the story. 1. John Blackthorne – Miura Anjin (William Adams)(1564–1620)...
Blackthorne's interactions with Toranaga are closely based upon accounts in the diaries of Adams.However, while Adams served in Tokugawa's army at Sekigahara, he did not become a retainer or a samurai until after the battle. Adams never met Hosokawa Gracia, in contrast to Blackthorne's intimate relationship with Toda Mariko. The novel contains nume...
Clavell was an officer in the Royal Artillery during World War II and was a prisoner of war at Changi Prison in Singapore from 1942 to 1945, an experience that formed the basis of his first novel King Rat. Despite this experience, he admired Japan and the Japanese people, and described Shogunas "passionately pro-Japanese." Clavell stated that readi...
The main theme of the novel is the precarious peace of Japan in 1600, a nation consumed by endless civil war and political machinations. The heir to the Taiko (retired Kampaku), the deceased supreme leader of Japan, is too young to rule, and five daimyōs chosen by the late Taiko for their ability to work together hold power as a Council of Regents ...
The New York Times's Webster Schott wrote, "I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one [...] It's almost impossible not to continue to read Shōgun once having opened it". In addition to becoming a best-seller, with more than six million copies of the novel in 14 hardcover and 38 paperback printings by 1980, Shōgun had great impa...
Television
In 1976 Clavell employed Robert Bolt to write a screenplay. Later, in 1978, he selected Eric Bercovici to write a miniseries for NBC. Clavell and Bercovici decided to simplify the story for an American television audience by omitting one of the two major plot lines of the novel, the struggle between Toranaga and the other warlords, and focusing on the adventures of Blackthorne and his romance with Mariko. Due to the focus on Blackthorne's perspective, most of the Japanese dialogue was not sub...
Stage musical
A stage musical adaptationwas produced in 1990.
Games
There have been three computer games based on the Shōgun novel. Two text-based adventure games with sparse graphics were produced for the Amiga and PC, marketed as James Clavell's Shōgun by Infocom and Shōgun by Mastertronic. A unique graphical adventure game, Shōgun, was also produced for systems including the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and IBM PC by Lee & Mathias and released by Virgin Entertainmentin 1986. The tabletop game publisher FASA published James Clavell's Shogunin 1983. This was th...
- James Clavell
- United Kingdom, United States
- 1975
- Ed Vebell (illustrated edition only)
Mar 5, 2024 · 5 March 2024. By James Balmont,Features correspondent. FX. Cosmo Jarvis and Hiroyuki Sanada star in the new hit Hulu/FX/Disney+ series Shōgun, which brings to life Japan's violent feudal past in ...
Apr 23, 2024 · Shōgun Episode Release Dates. Shōgun's miniseries includes 10 total episodes. New episodes debuted on Hulu and FX each Tuesday from February 27 to April 23. Here are the episode titles and their ...
