James Clavell's Shōgun [videorecording] / executive producer, James Clavell ; 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 ; Paramount Television.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
CBS Studios :
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
5 videodiscs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally broadcast in 1980. From the novel by James Clavell. Special features: Disc 5: The making of Shōgun (13 segment documentary on the making of the film): A novel adventure, The cast, Nagashima, Toho Studios, Cultures collide, The art of Shōgun, The erasmus and the gallery, Controversy, The earthquake, Escape from Osaka Castle, The blockade, Post production, Shōgun makes history; Historical perspective featurettes: The samurai, The tea ceremony, The geisha; Commentary by director Jerry London on select scenes. Orson Welles, narrator. Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada, Frankie Sakai, Alan Badel, Michael Hordern, Damien Thomas, John Rhys-Davies, Vladek Sheybal, George Innes, Leon Lissek, Yuki Meguro, Hideo Takamatsu, Hiromi Senno, Nobuo Kaneko.
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.
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