James Clavell's Shogun
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Actor: Alan Badel, Frankie Sakai, Richard Chamberlain, Toshir? Mifune, Y?ko ShimadaDirector: Jerry London
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Andrew Laszlo
Producer: Ben Chapman
Producer: Eric Bercovici
Writer: Eric Bercovici
Producer: James Clavell
Writer: James Clavell
Producer: Kerry Feltham
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 547 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of James Clavell's Shogun
DVD Review: Shogun DVD of 1982 TV mini-series
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best mini-series ever shown on TV. Great history lesson of early Japan. The costumes are fabulous. DVD Review: Blu-ray needed
Summary: 5 Stars
i love this show.
we need the Blu-ray of it.
i hope they are restoreing it.
also hope they use a cover like they did on the tapes.. vary nice.
anyway if you like history type shows you will love this.
as for me im waiting for a Blu-ray lelease.
i already have this one.
DVD Review: Shogun still fabulous
Summary: 5 Stars
I got Shogun on DVD for my husband's birthday. He's a big fan. He couldn't have been more delighted. The movie is one of those you can watch again, even after what, 30 years? and it still is awesome.DVD Review: Shogun
Summary: 5 Stars
Arrived promptly, dvd was well packaged and is a wonderful addition to our dvd library. Was great to find this classic as it's one of my husband's favorites.DVD Review: Toshiro Mifune... need I say more.
Summary: 4 Stars
Excellent adaptation of a slightly cheesy novel about an English sea captain who, with his crew in tow, washes up on the shores of pre modern / feudal Japan.
Shogun falls just shy of a full 5 stars, and I would have gladly given it such had it not been for the inclusion of a romance angle which distracts from the main plot, and Richard Chamberlains occasional hamming it up.
He does though play the part of an indignant English man surrounded by "savages" quite well, and the tempo carries throughout as you, along with the characters become familiarized with an alien culture that was like none the western world had ever experienced.
NBC exec's made the right call in forgoing subtitles so that you are forced to suffer Chamberlains fate alongside him. It really gives you a great sense of what it must have been like for the non fictional Captain William Adams, the first Englishman to arrive in Japan, and upon whom the story is loosely based. They also did a wonderful job aesthetically recreating the period that was 17th century Japan.
The brilliant casting of Toshiro Mifune as the Shogun apparent really carries this into the realm of great television, and on the strength of Mifune alone this is well worth whatever effort you may put forth in seeing it.
All in all, a great Samurai teleseries, smartly acted by all involved.
A must see for fans of Samurai culture!
Description of James Clavell's Shogun
The story of a shipwrecked English navigator who becomes a samurai during a struggle for power by a Shogun and the Emperor in feudal Japan.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 23-SEP-2003
Media Type: DVD
What better way to escape from the onslaught of so-called reality television than to sail away with Richard Chamberlain to "the Japans" for a little samurai action and some discreet "pillowing"? From the golden age of the miniseries comes this television benchmark, the 10-hour, Golden Globe-winning saga based on James Clavell's bestselling epic. In his award-winning performance, Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, the 17th-century English navigator on a Dutch trading ship. A storm runs the ship aground off the coast of Japan, a "torn and cruelly divided country" locked in a power struggle between Toranaga (the venerable Toshiro Mifune) and Ishido, two warlords who would be Shogun. Blackthorne gets over his initial culture shock ("I piss on you and your country," he defiantly proclaims to his samurai captors, which to his humiliation turns out to be an unfortunate choice of words) to become a trusted ally of Toranaga and the lover of the beautiful interpreter Lady Mariko (Yoko Shimada). Their forbidden, ill-fated romance--and Blackthorne's total assimilation into Japanese culture--is set against political intrigue as Toranaga prepares for the inevitable showdown with Ishido, and Blackthorne's growing influence threatens the local Jesuits who had built up a lucrative trade monopoly. Shogun was a production blessed with good karma, and it remains an awesome achievement from a bygone era when the miniseries was king. --Donald Liebenson
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