SHOGUN - BLU-1980-COMPLETE MINISERIES

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• 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, Furankî Sakai, Alan Badel, Damien Thomas, Michael Hordern, Vladek Sheybal, Yûki Meguro, Noburo Kaneko, George Innes, Leon Lissek, Tôru Abe, Anne Bancroft, John J. Carney, Masashi Ebara, Hyôe Enoki, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ian Jentle, Yûko Kada, Mika Kitagawa, Yoshie Kitsuda, Stewart MacKenzie, Ai Matsubara, Neil McCarthy, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yumiko Morishita, Yôsuke Natsuki, Masumi Okada, Edward Peel, John Rhys-Davies, Eric Richard, Atsuko Sano, Setsuko Sekine, Hiromi Senno, Akira Sera, William Morgan Sheppard, Miiko Taka, Hideo Takamatsu, Midori Takei, Shin Takuma, Steve Ubels, Orson Welles, Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Takeshi Ôbayashi, Jerry London, James Clavell, Eric Bercovici
• Director: Jerry London
• Runtime: 0
• Company: Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: Movie