Shogun
Brief Synopsis
All three stars, in addition to Yuki Meguro (as a samurai warrior) and John Rhys-Davies (as a flamboyant Portuguese pirate ship captain), received Emmy Award nominations for acting. Winning an Emmy as Outstanding Dramatic Series, "Shogun" also received nominations for direction, writing, photography, production design, art direction, set decoration, editing and film sound editing--and winning for costume design and main title design. Subsequently it was edited down from 12 hours to just over three for a theatrical version shown overseas and to a two-hour-plus version for home videotape and videodisc (these had some nudity as well as more graphic violence than was in the miniseries). In July 1984, "Shogun" was given a network premiere in a 2 1/2 hour movie form.
Cast & Crew
Richard Chamberlain
Toshiro Mifune
Yoko Shimada
Frankie Sakai
John Rhys-davies
Michael Hordern
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A landmark in the miniseries genre, which occupies a permanent niche alongside "Roots," "Centennial" and "Rich Man, Poor Man", this 12-hour, six-part adaptation of James Clavell's best-seller follows the fortunes of an ambitious English navigator who is shipwrecked with his Dutch crew in feudal Japan, finds himself enmeshed in a long battle between two powerful warlords, and eventually becomes the first western Shogun (or chief samurai). Unique in its initial presentation with much of it spoken in untranslated Japanese (subtitles were added in its network rerun several years later), it had a voice-over narration by Orson Welles, made a matinee idol of Richard Chamberlain, and introduced to American TV veteran Japanese star Toshiro Mifune (as the Shogun) and newcomer Yoko Shimada (as Chamberlain's love interest and interpreter).
All three stars, in addition to Yuki Meguro (as a samurai warrior) and John Rhys-Davies (as a flamboyant Portuguese pirate ship captain), received Emmy Award nominations for acting. Winning an Emmy as Outstanding Dramatic Series, "Shogun" also received nominations for direction, writing, photography, production design, art direction, set decoration, editing and film sound editing--and winning for costume design and main title design. Subsequently it was edited down from 12 hours to just over three for a theatrical version shown overseas and to a two-hour-plus version for home videotape and videodisc (these had some nudity as well as more graphic violence than was in the miniseries). In July 1984, "Shogun" was given a network premiere in a 2 1/2 hour movie form.
Cast
Richard Chamberlain
Toshiro Mifune
Yoko Shimada
Frankie Sakai
John Rhys-davies
Michael Hordern
Yosuke Natsuki
George Innes
Akira Seraa
Yuki Meguro
Masashi Ebara
Ian Jentle
Shin Takuma
Midori Takei
Ai Mastubara
Yumiko Morishita
Hyoei Enoki
Rinichi Yamamoto
Steven Ubels
Hideo Takamatsu
Hiroshi Haseagawa
Yoshie Kitsuda
Setsuko Sekine
Orson Welles
John J Carney
Yuko Kada
Stewart Mackenzie
Vladek Sheybal
Atsuko Sano
Toru Abe
Leon Lissek
Edward Peel
Mika Kitagawa
Eric Richard
Miiko Taka
Damien Thomas
Seiji Miyaguchi
Masumi Okada
Neil Mccarthy
Alan Badel
Takeshi Obayashi
Nobuo Kankeo
Hiromi Senno
Morgan Sheppard
Crew
Masato Abe
Chiho Adachi
Chiho Adachi
Christopher Bartlett
Howard Beals
Eric Bercovici
Eric Bercovici
Eric Bercovici
Richard Bowden
Ben Chapman
James Clavell
James Clavell
Phil Cook
Robert Dawson
Gordon Day
Chuy Elizondo
John Glascock
Robert Gutknecht
James T Heckert
Fred Ishimoto
Maurice Jarre
Joseph R Jennings
John Lasalandra
Andrew Laszlo
Bill Luciano
Toshiaki Manki
Shinpachi Miyama
Shinji Nakagawa
Shin Nishida
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Phill Norman
Masahiko Okumura
Stanley Paul
Tom Pedigo
Donald R Rode
Keisuke Shinoda
Kazuo Shizukawa
Jack Tucker
Benjamin A Weissman
Glenn Wilder
Wallace Worsley
Shoichi Yasuda
Jerry S. Young
Charles Ziarko
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States September 15, 1980
Aired in United States September 16, 1980
Aired in United States September 17, 1980
Aired in United States September 18, 1980
Aired in United States September 19, 1980
Released in United States on Video January 26, 1994
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Released theatrically outside the USA.
