It is based on the 1975 novel by James Clavell, and it follows a deep political game from Japan’s Edo period. The show has ignited anticipation in the minds of fans who are now eagerly waiting for the second season of the series.While fans wait for the second season of Shogun, they ...
by nature of James Clavell having written only one novel on feudal Japan.. but I actually predict this will be such a big hit, that FX will attempt to have scripts written for either a prequal, continuation - or spin offs - because that period of Japanese history is ripe with potential...
Shōgunis a fascinating thing. An adaptation of James Clavell’s 1975 novel of the same name, which was previously adapted into a TV miniseries starring legendary Japanese movie star Toshiro Mifune in 1980, FX’s latest offering is an entrancing blend of older and modern influences. Narratively ...
but Alexander Bennett's translation and historical acumen have changed all that. Put in its proper context, the book is an excellent tool for a look into what being an Edo period retainer was all about-from the high to the low, from the old to the young, and the changing ...
“Everyone agreed that the only way to tell the story properly, was to tell (as in the novel) from a full variety of its points of view,” the showrunners explain to Mike DeAngelo at The Playlist podcast.“Which meant that in a story that is in some ways fundamentally about the act...
“He became my hero because he stopped the war period and created a peaceful era for about 260 years,” Sanada says of the real-life warrior. “Shogun” is based on James Clavell’s novel of the same name and is a retelling of the Emmy-winning 1980s NBC miniseries. Set in 1600 f...
Japan: Children’s Books, Culture, and Art of Shogun Period I have been thinking of doing aTeach Me Tuesdayon Japan for a long time and now, with Japan in the news, I am a little tongue-tied. My mother’s side of the family is from Hiroshima and though we have a cousin who now...
When “Sarah, Plain and Tall” by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper & Row) was named winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal, the award committee also named two Honor Books, one a novel set in the modern Arctic, and the other an account of Japan during the 19th Century. ...