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Shōgun is a 1980 American historical drama 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 19, 1980.
Shōgun is a 1975 historical novel by author James Clavell that chronicles the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868). ). Loosely based on actual events and figures, Shōgun narrates how European interests and internal conflicts within Japan brought about the Shogunate restorat
John Blackthorne, also known as Anjin (按針, lit. "Pilot", "Steuermann"), is the protagonist of James Clavell's 1975 novel Shōgun.The character is loosely based on the life of the 17th-century English navigator William Adams, who was the first Englishman to visit Japan.
IN FOCUS: The new FX/Disney+ series, adapted from James Clavell’s 1975 novel, is the most-nominated show at this year’s Emmy Awards. As Kevin E G Perry writes, both the book and show take ...
Shōgun was last adapted back in 1980, with legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune at the helm. For more info about the ten-episode limited series, travel with us to the turn of the seventeenth ...
Based on the 1975 novel by James Clavell (which was previously adapted for television back in 1980), it might lack the baked-in fanbase of George RR Martin (I visited three London bookshops this ...
James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell; 10 October 1921 [1] [2] – 7 September 1994) was an Australian-born, British-raised and educated, naturalized-American writer, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his Asian Saga novels
Clavell’s novel is a totemic work of fiction, sure, but it’s also inherently rooted in reality. Blackthrone is loosely based on a man named William Adams, the first Englishman to reach Japan.