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I n 1980, the five-night, 12-hour, award-winning historical romance Shōgun debuted on NBC. The miniseries starred Richard Chamberlain and was an immediate ratings smash when it premiered on Sept ...
Shogun: With Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai. An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.
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Sep 15, 1980 · Shogun: Directed by Jerry London. With Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai. An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
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Shōgun is a 1980 American historical drama television miniseries based on James Clavell 's 1975 novel of the same name. The series was produced by Paramount Television and first broadcast in the United States on NBC over five nights between September 15 and September 19, 1980. It was written by Eric Bercovici and directed by Jerry London, and ...
Brief Synopsis. A landmark in the miniseries genre, which occupies a permanent niche alongside "Roots," "Centennial" and "Rich Man, Poor Man", this 12-hour, six-part adaptation of James Clavell's best-seller follows the fortunes of an ambitious English navigator who is shipwrecked with his Dutch crew in feudal Japan, finds himself enmeshed in a...
Sep 7, 2010 · In his award-winning performance, Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, the 17th-century English navigator on a Dutch trading ship. A storm runs the ship aground off the coast of Japan, a "torn and cruelly divided country" locked in a power struggle between Toranaga (the venerable Toshiro Mifune) and Ishido, two warlords who would be Shogun.
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Shogun (TV Movie 1980) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... Richard Chamberlain ... Pilot-Major John Blackthorne ...
