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Author:

Shōgun (Television program)

Title:

James Clavell's Shōgun [dvd] / written for television and produced by Eric Bercovici ; directed by Jerry London ; produced in association with Toho Company Ltd., Asahi National Broadcasting Co., Ltd., [and] Jardine, Matheson Co., Ltd. ; Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Format:

[dvd] /

Publisher:

Paramount Home Video,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

5 videodiscs (547 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Television mini-series.
Adams, William,--1564-1620--Drama.
Tokugawa, Ieyasu,--1543-1616--Drama.
Shoguns--Drama.
Samurai--Japan--Drama.
Merchant mariners--Japan--Drama.
Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868--Drama.
Films for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

London, Jerry.
Chamberlain, Richard, 1935-
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
Shimada, Yōko.
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
Clavell, James. Shōgun.
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.
Jardine, Matheson & Co.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Notes:

Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada ; Orson Welles, narrator. Originally broadcast in 1980. English 5.1 surround or English restored mono. Includes: 13 segment documentary on the making of Shogun; historical featurettes on the samurai, the tea ceremony, and the geisha; optional audio commentary by Jerry London on select scenes.

Summary:

John Blackthorne is a ship-wrecked English navigator who becomes both an observer and a participant in historic changes in Japan during the Tokugawa, or, Edo period. Toranaga is a feuding warlord vying to become the supreme military dictator, or shōgun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.

ISBN:

9780792193326
0792193326

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53026518

UPC:

097361549842

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