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27 lut 2024 · Shogun was a smash hit, selling more than six million copies by 1980. Critics praised the immersive nature of Clavell’s world-building and his depiction of cross-cultural understanding.
22 mar 2024 · Even the biggest fans of slow-burn narratives will admit that the Shogun novel drags at times and muddles up what’s ultimately a straightforward but intriguing story. Both the 1980 and 2024 miniseries fix that by shuffling scenes around and boiling stuff down when necessary. No pun intended.
28 lut 2024 · “Shōgun” is a fictional take on the early seventeenth century power struggle that in real life led to Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu founding the Tokugawa Shōgunate, a dynastic military government that...
The depiction of the military struggle for national supremacy in Shōgun corresponds to historical fact in broad outline, although the intricate subplots of the novel are wholly of Clavell’s invention.
Background: I'm reading Shogun, and enjoying it enormously, but the portrayal of the samurai, their families, and their subordinates as authoritarian and death-obsessed has been setting off warning...
8 mar 2024 · Along with Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai, Shōgun has taken one of the most influential hero types in popular culture and further unearthed its contradictions. It illustrates the samurai story as ...
17 maj 2024 · Set in 1600, “Shogun” follows John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), an English Protestant who pilots a ship against the Catholic colonial powers of Spain and Portugal.
