James Clavell's Shōgun
(2003, original release: 1980)
Fiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/SHOGUN
2 Holds on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Los Angeles, CA : Paramount Home Video, [2003]
DESCRIPTION
5 videodiscs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
0792193326 15498
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally televised in 1980 as a miniseries
A ship-wrecked English navigator becomes both an observer and a participant in historic changes wracking a Japan coming to grips with contact with western society
Special features: 13 segment documentary on the making of Shogun ; historical featurettes on the samurai, the tea ceremony, and the geisha ; audio commentary by director Jerry London on select scenes
Not rated
Executive producer, James Clavell ; producer-writer, Eric Bercovici ; director, Jerry London ; music, Maurice Jarre
Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada ; Orson Welles, narrator
DVD
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired