SHOGUN

Details

• Release Year: 1980
• Genre: Adventure, Drama
• Plot: From best-selling author James Clavell ('King Rat', 'Noble House') comes the sweeping award-winning story of love and war. Set against the spectacular background of feudal Japan at the beginning of the 17th century. And 'Shogun' has never looked better than it does on DVD in this thrilling presentation. Richard Chamberlain (TV's 'Dr. Kildare', 'The Thorn Birds') stars as John Blackthorne, an English navigator shipwrecked off the coast of Japan. Rescued, he becomes an eyewitness to a deadly struggle involving Toranaga (Toshiro Mifune, 'Rashomon'),a feuding warlord intent on becoming Shogun-the supreme military dictator. At the same time, Blackthorne is irresistibly drawn into the turmoil and finds himself vying to become the first-ever Gai-jin (Foreigner) to be made a Samurai warrior. The complete nine-hour presentation of this landmark television miniseries is presented in this exclusive five-disc set, with fascinating, brand-new special features that complement this acclaimed epic adventure!
• Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Frankie Sakai, Alan Badel, Damien Thomas, Vladek Sheybal, Yuki Meguro, Hideo Takamatsu, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiromi Senno, Michael Hordern, George Innes, Leon Lissek, Edward Peel, Eric Richard, Steve Ubels, Stewart MacKenzie, John J. Carney, Ian Jentle, Neil McCarthy, William Morgan Sheppard, Mika Kitagawa, Seiji Miyaguchi, Toru Abe, Shin Takuma, Hyoei Enoki, Miiko Taka, Midori Takei, Ai Matsubara, Yumiko Morishita, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Akira Sera, Rinichi Yamamoto, Yûko Kada, Masumi Okada, Yosuke Natsuki, Takeshi Ôbayashi, Yoshie Kitsuda, Masashi Ebara, Setsuko Sekine, Atsuko Sano, Orson Welles, Jerry London, James Clavell, Eric Bercovici, Andrew Laszlo, James T. Heckert, Bill Luciano, Donald R. Rode, Benjamin A. Weissman, Jerry Young, Maurice Jarre
• Director: Jerry London
• Runtime: 9:07
• Company: Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: Series