Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

James Clavell's shōgun / written for television and produced by Eric Bercovici ; directed by Jerry London ; produced in association with Toho Company Ltd., Asahi National Broadcasting Co., Ltd., [and] Jardine, Matheson Co., Ltd. ; Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Publisher, Date:

Los Angeles : Paramount Home Video, [2003]

Description:

5 videodiscs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

4:3

full screen

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA Rating

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.

Genre:

Television mini-series.

Films for hard of hearing people

Historical television programs.

Action and adventure television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Samurai films.

Television adaptations.

Television programs.

Other Author:

London, Jerry, film director.

Bercovici, Eric, film producer, screenwriter.

Chamberlain, Richard, 1934-2025 actor.

Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997, actor.

Shimada, Yōko, 1953-2022, actor.

Welles, Orson, 1915-1985, actor.

Film adaptation of (work): Clavell, James. Shōgun.

Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.

Zenkoku Asahi Hōsō Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.

Jardine, Matheson & Co., production company.

Paramount Pictures Corporation, production company.

Paramount Home Video (Firm), film distributor.

Other Title:

Shōgun

Notes:

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.

Executive producer, James Clavell ; music, Maurice Jarre.

Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada.

Orson Welles, narrator.

DVD; NTSC; Region 1; full screen format ; Dolby digital.

Closed-captioned.

Closed-captioned and optional English subtitles; some parts in Japanese with English voice-overs.

English 5.1 surround or English restored mono.

Contents:

v.1. Discs 1 & 2 -- v. 2. Discs 3 & 4 -- v. 3. Disc 5.

LCCN:

53026518

ISBN:

0792193326

9780792193326

Publisher Number:

15498

Other Number:

53026518

System Availability:

4

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

4

Control Number:

134001

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

DVD TV Shogun