Shogun Mini-Series Richard Chamberlain
Shogun Complete Mini-Series on 5 dvd-r disc, 9/10
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The miniseries, with narration by Orson Welles, starred
Richard Chamberlain as John Blackthorne (Anjin-san), Toshiro Mifune
as Lord Toranaga, Yoko Shimada as Lady Toda Buntaro a.k.a. Mariko,
John Rhys-Davies in one of his first major roles as Portuguese
Pilot Vasco Rodrigues and Michael Hordern as Friar Domingo.
Shogun broke several taboos and firsts for American broadcast
TV.
It was the first network show allowed to use the word "piss"
in dialogue and to actually show the act of urination.
A man shown being beheaded early in the first chapter was
another first for network TV (although the film version of the
sequence was more bloody).
The miniseries was also noted for its frank discussion of
sexuality, nudity, and of matters such as Japanese ritual suicide
(seppuku).
To date, it is the only USA-based TV show/miniseries to be
entirely filmed on location in Japan. Even the studio shots were
done in Japanese studios.
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