Series Cast
Hiroyuki Sanada
Yoshii Toranaga
Cosmo Jarvis
John Blackthorne
Anna Sawai
Toda Mariko
Tadanobu Asano
Kashigi Yabushige
Takehiro Hira
Ishido Kazunari
Tommy Bastow
Father Martin Alvito
Fumi Nikaido
Ochiba No Kata / Ruri
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Season 1
2024 | 10 Episodes
Season 1 of Shōgun premiered on Feb 27 2024
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A review by MovieGuys
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Written by MovieGuys on Tue Feb 27 2024
The original Shogun, the series, from 1980 like the novel it was based upon,by James Clavell, was a masterpiece.
It worked because of tight coherent storytelling, compelling characterisations and intelligent narrative, that very wisely took its inspiration and direction, from the novel it was based upon.
Then along lumbers this latest effort. Its manages to partly shift its focus away from the relationship between the pilot John Blackthorne and Lord Toranaga. In so doing, diffusing a key focal point of the story. A story which is essentially about the collision of Western and Eastern so...
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Original Language
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Keywords
- japan
- civil war
- based on novel or book
- samurai
- interpreter
- miniseries
- fish out of water
- jidaigeki
- historical drama
- shipwrecked
- sengoku period
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