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Hiroyuki Sanada, who plays Lord Yoshi Toranaga, explained at a press event for Shōgun that this resonance is exactly why he’s excited to tell this story now. “When I received this role, [I ...
A Council of five rulers—who are governing Japan until their late lord’s heir comes of age—looks to impeach the powerful Yoshii Toranaga (played by Hiroyuki Sanada).
IN FOCUS: The new FX/Disney+ series, adapted from James Clavell’s 1975 novel, is a sprawling historical epic. As Kevin E G Perry writes, both the book and show take inspiration from the ...
James Clavell's Shōgun (1975) is a historical novel chronicling the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868). Loosely based on actual events and figures Shōgun narrates how European interests and internal conflicts within Japan brought about the Shogunate restoration.
Shōgun follows "the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds, John Blackthorne, a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga, a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous political rivals; and Lady Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties, who must ...
Yoshi Toranaga, Guardian of the Heir and a descendant of his namesake from Shōgun, reads in the Toranaga Legacy, his ancestor's memoirs, about the Anjin and the cannons he provided, and muses on how to use foreigners the same way his forefather did. [4] In Clavell's novel Noble House, a minor character named Riko Anjin makes a brief appearance.
There’s Lord Yoshi Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), an influential leader whose allegiance to the realm’s shogun, an equivalent to a monarch or a king, is being questioned by political rivals ...
Toranaga is in a giant pickle made of glass, and this glass pickle is dangling precariously from the edge of a kitchen counter, seconds away from shattering." [ 15 ] Johnny Loftus of Decider wrote , "the threat Lord Toranga now faces in Shōgun Episode 8, to the realm and to his clan, has inspired the most relentless, physically costly version ...