Shogun
| Actor: | Richard Chamberlain |
| Actor: | Toshirô Mifune |
| Actor: | Yôko Shimada |
| Actor: | Furankî Sakai |
| Audience Rating: | Suitable for 15 years and over |
| Certificate: | 15 |
| Director: | Jerry London |
| E A N: | 5014437852038 |
| Edition: | Box Set |
| Encoding: | PAL |
| Features: | Box Set |
| Film/ T V Title: | Shogun |
| Format: | DVD |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Language: | English |
| Manufacturer: | Paramount Home Entertainment |
| Number Of Discs: | 5 |
| Publisher: | Elevation Sales |
| Region Code: | DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...) |
| Release Year: | 2004 |
| Release Date: | 1980-09-15 |
| Season: | Complete Series Box Set |
| Sub- Genre: | Boxing |
| Type: | Mini Series |
| U P C: | 5014437852038 |
From the golden age of the miniseries comes Shogun, the 10-hour, Golden Globe-winning saga based on James Clavell's bestselling epic novel. In his award-winning performance, Richard 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. Blackthorne gets over his initial culture shock ("I piss on you and your country", he defiantly proclaims to his samurai captors, which to his humiliation turns out to be an unfortunate choice of words) to become a trusted ally of Toranaga and the lover of the beautiful interpreter Lady Mariko (Yoko Shimada). Their forbidden, ill-fated romance--and Blackthorne's total assimilation into Japanese culture--is set against political intrigue as Toranaga prepares for the inevitable showdown with Ishido, and Blackthorne's growing influence threatens the local Jesuits who had built up a lucrative trade monopoly. Shogun was a production blessed with good karma, and it remains an awesome achievement from a bygone era when the miniseries was king. --Donald Liebenson
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