Shōgun

The Resource Shōgun
Label
Shōgun
Statement of responsibility
Toho Company Ltd., Asahi National Broadcasting Co., Ltd., [and] Jardine, Matheson Co., Ltd. ; Paramount Pictures Corporation ; Paramount Television ; executive producer, James Clavell ; written for television and produced by Eric Bercovici ; directed by Jerry London
Title variation
James Clavell's Shōgun
Creator
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Actor
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Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • jpn
  • eng
  • eng
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
Cataloging source
AU@
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Music, Maurice Jarre ; editors, James T. Heckert, Bill Luciano, Donald R. Rode, Benjamin A. Weissman, Jerry Young ; production designer, Joseph R. Jennings ; director of photography, Andrew Laszlo
Intended audience
Not rated
Language note
In English with English subtitles ; closed-captioned
PerformerNote
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
Runtime
547
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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