Shōgun (2024 TV series)
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| Genre | Historical drama |
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Shōgun by James Clavell |
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| Country of origin | United States United Kingdom |
| Original languages | English Japanese |
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| Release | February 27, 2024 |
Shōgun 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).
Cast
In parentheses, the name of the historical figure on whom the character is based
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
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Teleplay by | Original release date |
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| 1 | TBA | Jonathan van Tulleken | Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks | February 27, 2024 |
| 2 | TBA | Jonathan van Tulleken | Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks | February 27, 2024 |
| 3 | TBA | Charlotte Brändström | Shannon Goss | March 5, 2024 |
| 4 | TBA | TBA | Nigel Williams and Emily Yoshida | March 12, 2024 |
| 5 | TBA | TBA | Matt Lambert | March 19, 2024 |
| 6 | TBA | Hiromi Kamata | Maegan Houang | March 26, 2024 |
| 7 | TBA | TBA | Matt Lambert | April 2, 2024 |
| 8 | TBA | Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour | Shannon Goss | April 9, 2024 |
| 9 | TBA | TBA | Rachel Kondo & Caillin Puente | April 16, 2024 |
| 10 | TBA | TBA | Maegan Houang & Emily Yoshida | April 23, 2024 |
Takeshi Fukunaga directed one episode of the series.
Production
Development
During the Television Critics Association's annual summer press tour in August 2018, FX announced it would make a new adaptation of Shogun and had given the production a straight-to-series order. Executive producers were expected to include Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Michael De Luca, Michaela Clavell, Tim Van Patten, Eugene Kelly, and Ronan Bennett. Rachel Bennette is set as a supervising producer, Tom Winchester as a producer, Georgina Pope as a co-producer, and Eriko Miyagawa as an associate producer. Patten will also direct for the series as Bennett will also write. FX Productions is slated to serve as production companies for the series. Sanada serves as a Producer. The 10-episode limited series is produced by FX Productions.
Filming
Principal photography for the series was scheduled to commence in March 2019 in Japan and the United Kingdom, but was delayed because the network felt that the production wasn't in good enough shape and that they wanted to aim higher.
In January 2020, it was revealed that after original writer Ronan Bennett was no longer available to keep working on scripts, they started over from scratch with new writer and executive producer Justin Marks, working alongside his wife, supervising producer Rachel Kondo. The series’ writing team also includes co-executive producer Shannon Goss, consulting producer Matt Lambert, script editor Maegan Houang, and staff writer Emily Yoshida.
On September 22, 2021, principal photography for the series began in Vancouver, the United Kingdom, and Japan, lasting until June 30, 2022, a full two months longer than expected.
A Japanese pine tree used on set was donated and planted after filming to the City Hall of Port Moody.