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The character of Blackthorne is loosely based on the historical English navigator William Adams, [7] [8] who rose to become a samurai under Tokugawa Ieyasu, a powerful feudal lord (daimyō) who later became the military ruler of Japan and the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Ieyasu is the basis for the character of Yoshii Toranaga.
Shogun's Samurai, known in Japan as The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (Japanese: 柳生一族の陰謀, Hepburn: Yagyū Ichizoku no Inbō), is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku. [1]
After his Dutch trading ship Erasmus and its surviving crew is blown ashore by a violent storm at Anjiro on the east coast of Japan, Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, the ship's English navigator, is taken prisoner by samurai warriors. When he is later temporarily released, he must relinquish his English identity, while adapting to the alien ...
When this request was denied, Adams accepted his fate and permanently settled in Japan. The shogun presented Adams with two swords representing the authority of a samurai, and decreed that William ...
The site wrote, "Shōgun ' s scruffy warlord Yabushige may not have been one of the key power players on FX's samurai epic, but Tadanobu Asano grunted his way into our hearts as the strictly pragmatic schemer. In this week's finale, Asano revealed a tender side to Yabushige when he expressed deep regret for his role in Mariko's death, and then ...
FX has released the official trailer for the series adaptation of “Shogun,” starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis. Based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel of the same name, the 10-episode ...
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell AKA Shogun Assassin 5: Cold Road to Hell: 1974 子連れ狼 地獄へ行くぞ!大五郎 Kozure Ōkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro: Wolf with Child in Tow: Now We Go to Hell, Daigoro! 7 Shogun Assassin: 1980 An English language dubbed film with 12 minutes from Sword of Vengeance and most of Baby Cart at the ...
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