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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 restoration .
The name Asian Saga was first applied to the series after Shōgun had been published. The purpose of the Asian Saga was, according to Clavell—descendant of a family long in service to the British Empire, and who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War—to tell "the story of the Anglo-Saxon in Asia".
$15.22 at amazon.com. He continues, "We told the story of the book to the end of the book, down to exactly the way the book ended." (Shōgun is adapted from James Clavell's book of the same name ...
The 82nd annual Golden Globes, hosted by Nikki Glaser, aired on CBS and Paramount+ on Jan. 5, with an abundance of TV shows, movies and actors taking home the coveted award. Many of the winning ...
When FX sent Shōgun by James Clavell to Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, it was not a book the husband and wife creative team had read before—but it was one they were very aware of. "We came to ...
The movie sale money for King Rat gave me the drop dead money I needed to write Tai Pan, said Clavell. [4] (He later said this was $157,000 spread over five years for tax purposes.) [5] After visiting Hong Kong with Benson Fong in 1962, Clavell returned in 1963 with his family for a year. He said it took him five false starts, 241 days to write ...