Shōgun

Shōgun is an American historical drama that premiered on February 27, 2024 on Hulu (as part of FX on Hulu) in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by James Clavell and was previously adapted into a 1980 miniseries.
==Synopsis==
The series follows English pilot John Blackthorne, who finds himself shipwrecked in Japan and must learn to acclimate to the culture, Lord Yoshii Toranaga, a powerful daimyo who must fight to protect his status, and Toda Mariko who must prove where her loyalties lie despite her family history.
==Cast==
===Main===
*Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshii Toranaga
*Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne
*Anna Sawai as Toda Mariko
*Tadanobu Asano as Kashigi Yabushige
*Takehiro Hira as Ishido Kazunari
*Tommy Bastow as Father Martin Alvito
*Fumi Nikaido as Ochiba no Kata / Ruri
===Recurring===
*Nestor Carbonell as Vasco Rodrigues
*Tokuma Nishioka as Toda "Iron Fist" Hiromatsu
*Hiroto Kanai as Kashigi Omi
*Yasunari Takeshima as Tonomoto Akinao / Muraji
*Moeka Hoshi as Usami Fuji
*Yuki Kura as Yoshii Nagakado
*Ako as Daiyoin / Lady Iyo
*Hiromoto Ida as Kiyama ukon Sadanaga
*Toshi Toda as Sugiyama Josui
*Takeshi Kurokawa as Ohno Harunobu
*Yuka Kouri as Kiku
*Hiro Kanagawa as Igarashi Yoshitomo
*Sen Mars as Nakamura Yaechiyo
*Yuki Kedoin as Takemaru
*Nobuya Shimamoto as Nebara Jozen
*Yutaka Takeuchi as Akechi Jinsai
*Shinnosuke Abe as Toda "Buntaro" Hirokatsu
*Louis Ferreira as Ferreira
*Paulino Nunes as Father Visitor Carlo Dell'Acqua
*Yoriko Dōguchi as Kiri no Kata
*Mako Fujimoto as Shizu no Kata
*Yuua Yamanaka as Toda Ryûji
*Eisuke Sasai as Lord Ito
*Yuko Miyamoto as Gin
*Eita Okuno as Saeki Nobutatsu
===Guests===
*Ned Dennehy as the Captain-General
*Yuki Takao as Usami Tadayoshi
*Dakota Daulby as Salamon
*Joaquim de Almeida as Father Domingo
*Yukijiro Hotaru as Nakamura Hidetoshi
*Junichi Tajiri as Uejiro
*Eijiro Ozaki as Lord Kuroda Nobuhisa
*Takaaki Hirakawa as Mizoguchi
*Yoshi Amao as Sera
*Hitoshi Masaki as Tomono
*Haruka Igarashi as Rin
==Episodes==
===Season One (2024)===
No. inSeries	No. inSeason	Title 	Director 	Writer 	Air date
01 	01 	"Anjin"(Dai-ichi wa: Anjin; 第一話「按針」) 	Jonathan van Tulleken	Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks 	February 27, 2024
02 	02 	"Servants of Two Masters"(Dai-ni wa: Futari no Shukun ni Tsukaete; 第二話「二人の主君に仕えて」) 	Jonathan van Tulleken	Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks 	February 27, 2024
03 	03 	"Tomorrow Is Tomorrow"(Dai-san wa: Ashita wa Ashita; 第三話「明日は明日」) 	Charlotte Brändström 	Shannon Goss 	March 5, 2024
04 	04 	"The Eightfold Fence"(Dai-yon wa: Yaegaki; 第四話「八重垣」) 	Frederick E.O. Toye 	Nigel Williams & Emily Yoshida	March 12, 2024
05 	05 	"Broken to the Fist"(Dai-go wa: Chichi no Ikari; 第五話「父の怒り」) 	Frederick E.O. Toye 	Matt Lambert 	March 19, 2024
06 	06 	"Ladies of the Willow World"(Dai-roku wa: Utakata no Onnatachi; 第六話「うたかたの女たち」) 	Hiromi Kamata 	Maegan Houang 	March 26, 2024
07 	07 	"A Stick of Time"(Dai-nana wa: Senkō Ippon no Toki; 第七話「線香一本の時」) 	Takeshi Fukunaga 	Matt Lambert 	April 2, 2024
08 	08 	"The Abyss of Life"(Dai-hachi wa: Naraku no Soko; 第八話「奈落の底」) 	Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour	Shannon Goss 	April 9, 2024
09 	09 	"Crimson Sky"(Dai-kyū wa: Kōten; 第九話「紅天」) 	Frederick E.O. Toye 	Rachel Kondo & Caillin Puente 	April 16, 2024
10 	10 	"A Dream of a Dream"(Dai-jū wa: Yume no Naka no Yume; 第十話「夢の中の夢」) 	Frederick E.O. Toye 	Maegan Houang & Emily Yoshida 	April 23, 2024
==Trivia==
*While the first season is strictly based on the novel by James Clavell, the follow up seasons are original stories.
*Takehiro Hira and Anna Sawai also star in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters together. According to Hira, after wrapping Shōgun, the two immediately went to film their other show the very next day. They also previously appeared in the BBC drama Giri/Haji.
==External links==
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*Shōgun Wiki
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