 |
Shogun (1980)Synopsis:
In the 16th Century, a Dutch ship sails the Pacific from the Americas in order to escape the Spanish. Blackthorn is the pilot of the ship and the first to realize the possibilities of Japan. Japan is a feudal society which has a strong presence of the Portugese. A struggle is in the final stages for who will be the Shogun, the leader who, under the emperor, governs the land. Toranaga sees in Blackthorn things he can use to at least survive the struggle to come, and if both play their hands correctly, become Shogun.
Resource Links:
|
|
|
Reviews & Analyses: Shogun
Latest Questions |
Kinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, i...
|
 |
Karate-kicking midgets! Paper-mache monsters! Busty babes with blades! Filipino genre films of the '70s and '80s had ...
|
 |
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a...
|
 |
Like Polanski's heroine in Repulsion, Susannah York's character is one that is seemingly haunted by memories of undis...
|
