A new mini-series based on JAMES CLAVELL’s epic masterpiece, Shogun, premieres 27 February.
The mini-series stars Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Anna Sawai. The series will be available to watch on Disney+.from 27 February 2024.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This is James Clavell’s tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.
Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne’s rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country.
Shogun is the first novel in the internal chronology of the author’s ‘Asian Saga’.
SERIES
- Shōgun: set in feudal Japan, 1600
- Tai-Pan: set in Hong Kong, 1841
- Gai-Jin: set in Japan, 1862
- King Rat: set in a Japanese POW camp, Singapore, 1945
- Noble House: set in Hong Kong, 1963
- Whirlwind: set in Iran, 1979.
In 1976 James Clavell employed Robert Bolt to write a screenplay based on Shogun. The novel was adapted as a nine-hour television miniseries in 1980. It starred Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada, and John Rhys-Davies. A musical followed the television production.
There have been three computer games based on the Shōgun novel. Two text-based adventure games were produced for the Amiga and PC. A graphical adventure game, Shōgun, was also produced for systems including the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and IBM PC by Lee & Mathias and released by Virgin Entertainment in 1986.
The tabletop game publisher FASA published James Clavell’s Shogun in 1983. This was the third of four board game titles based on Clavell novels.
