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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]
William Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Wiriamu Adamusu, 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), better known in Japan as Miura Anjin (三浦按針, 'the pilot of Miura'), was an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan.
The Yagyu Conspiracy (柳生一族の陰謀, Yagyū ichizoku no inbō) is a Japanese television jidaigeki (period drama) that was broadcast from 1978 to 1979. It is adapted from the 1978 film Shogun's Samurai starring Sonny Chiba , who reprises his role in the series.
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.
The shogun presented Adams with two swords representing the authority of a samurai, and decreed that William Adams the pilot was dead and that Miura Anjin, a samurai, was born in his place.
In Shogun's Samurai, Jubei is struck with a sword. In The Yagyu Conspiracy Jubei is hit by an arrow. And in Samurai Reincarnation, it occurs during a practice duel with his father. Toei films directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Shogun's Samurai (aka The Yagyu Conspiracy) (柳生一族の陰謀) (1978) Samurai Reincarnation (魔界転生) (1981)
This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, as hereditary military dictators, [1] from the beginning of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868. [ a ]
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