SHOGUN from FX-Hulu 2024 Feb

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Those who have access to Hulu, this year with a coproduction with FX, Hulu is releasing an adventure-drama TV series called SHOGUN. The series is about when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, Lord Yoshii Toranaga discovers secrets that could tip the scales of power and devastate his enemies.

It is an upcoming historical drama television limited series based on the 1975 novel of the same name by James Clavell that is set to premiere on Hulu, Disney+ (via the Hulu hub) and FX in the United States, Disney+ (Via Star) internationally, Disney+ and Star+ in Latin America. The novel was previously adapted into a 1980 television miniseries.

Premise
Shōgun follows "the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds and a mysterious female samurai; 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 prove her value and allegiance". Clavell's Shōgun is a fictionalized version of real events and history. The character of Blackthorne is loosely based on the historical English navigator William Adams, who in Japan rose to become a samurai under the strongest powerful daimyo, Tokugawa Ieyasu (on whom the character Yoshii Toranaga is based)

Season 1 episodes:

1. Anjin  (Feb 27)

2. Servants of Two Masters  (Feb 27)

3. Tomorrow is Tomorrow  (Mar 5)

4. The Eightfold Fence  (Mar 12)

5. Broken to the Fist  (Mar 19)

6. Ladies of the Willow World (Mar 26)

Cast:

Main
Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616))
Cosmo Jarvis as Pilot Major John Blackthorne (Miura Anjin (William Adams)) (1564–1620))
Anna Sawai as Toda Mariko (Hosokawa Gracia (1563–1600))
Tadanobu Asano as Kashigi Yabushige (Honda Masanobu (1538–1616))
Hiroto Kanai as Kashigi Omi (Honda Masazumi (1566–1637))
Takehiro Hira as Ishido Kazunari (Ishida Mitsunari (1559–1600))
Moeka Hoshi as Usami Fuji
Shinnosuke Abe as Toda Buntaro (Hosokawa Tadaoki (1563–1646))
Tokuma Nishioka as Toda "Iron Fist" Hiromatsu (Hosokawa Fujitaka (1534–1610))
Yasunari Takeshima as Muraji
Yuki Kura as Yoshii Nagakado (Matsudaira Tadayoshi (1580-1607))
Fumi Nikaido as Ochiba No Kata (Yodo-dono (1569–1615))
Tommy Bastow as Father Martin Alvito (João Rodrigues Tçuzu (1561–1634))
Yuka Kouri as Kiku
Yoriko Dōguchi as Kiri No Kata (Lady Acha (1555-1637))
Ako as Daiyoin / Lady Iyo (Kōdai-in (1549–1624))

Supporting
Toshi Toda as Sugiyama (Maeda Toshiie (1539-1599))
Hiro Kanagawa as Igurashi
Junichi Tajiri as Uejiro
Néstor Carbonell as Vasco Rodrigues
Nobuya Shimamoto as Nebara Jozen
Yuki Kedoin as Takemaru
Mako Fujimoto as Shizu No Kata
Haruno Niiyama as Natsu No Kata
Hiromoto Ida as Kiyama ukon Sadanaga (Konishi Yukinaga (1555-1600))
Takeshi Kurokawa as Ohno Harunobu (Otani Yoshitsugu (1558-1600))
Yuko Miyamoto as Gin
Yoshi Amao as Sera

View the Official Trailer for the series

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