Shōgun
DVD - 2003 DVD TV Shogun 1 On Shelf 1 request on 3 copies
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Call Number: DVD TV Shogun
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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DVD TV Shogun | 2-week checkout | Due 05-03-2024 |
From the novel by James Clavell; originally broadcast in 1980.
Special features includes: 13 segment documentary on the making of Shogun; historical featurettes on the samurai, the tea ceremony, and the geisha; optional audio commentary by Jerry London on select scenes.
V.1. Discs 1 & 2 -- v. 2. Discs 3 & 4 -- v. 3. Disc 5.
Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada.
Orson Welles, narrator.
John Blackthorne is a ship-wrecked English navigator who becomes both an observer and a participant in historic changes in Japan during the Tokugawa, or, Edo period. Toranaga is a feuding warlord vying to become the supreme military dictator, or shōgun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.
DVD; NTSC; Region 1; full screen format.
Contents: Shōgun.
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LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Closed-captioned and optional English subtitles; some parts in Japanese with English voice-overs.
PUBLISHED
Los Angeles : Paramount Home Video, c2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 5 videodiscs (547 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0792193326
9780792193326
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
London, Jerry.
Bercovici, Eric.
Chamberlain, Richard, 1935-
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
Shimada, Yōko, 1953-
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
Clavell, James.
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
Zenkoku Asahi Hōsō Kabushiki Kaisha.
Jardine, Matheson & Co.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Paramount Home Video (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Clavell, James -- Television adaptations.
Adams, William, -- 1564-1620 -- Drama.
Tokugawa, Ieyasu, -- 1543-1616 -- Drama.
Shoguns -- Drama.
Samurai -- Japan -- Drama.
Merchant mariners -- Japan -- Drama.
Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 -- Drama.
Television mini-series.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Historical television programs.
Action and adventure television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Television programs -- United States.
Television programs -- Japan.