Shogun

DVD 2003

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 shogun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.

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ISBN:

9780792193326
0792193326

Uniform Title:

Shōgun (Television program)

Description:

5 videodiscs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
polychrome
digital
optical
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Suggested rating: PG

Other Title:

James Clavell's Shogun

Notes:

From the novel by james Clavell; originally broadcast in 1980
Home use only. Public performance rights NOT included
Special features 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
Executive producer, James Clavell ; music, Maurice Jarre
Orson Welles, narrator
Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada
DVD; NTSC; Region 1; full screen format
Closed-captioned and optional English subtitles; some parts in Japanese with English voice-overs
English 5.1 surround or English restored mono

Control Number:

3145471

UPC:

097361549842

Other Authors:

Bercovici, Eric
Chamberlain, Richard, 1934-2025
Clavell, James. Shōgun
Jardine, Matheson & Co
London, Jerry
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Shimada, Yōko, 1953-2022
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
Zenkoku Asahi Hōsō Kabushiki Kaisha

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