Feudal Japan TV series

reno_rita

I'm looking for the title of a TV series probably from the 80s. It's about a British captain coming to feudal Japan with his crew, but Japan is already influenced by Spanish missionaries and in Europe, England and Spain are at war. Of course there is lots of samurai stuff going on and people getting executed for no particular reason. But the most memorable thing is that the Japanese people only speak Japanese even though it's an English TV...

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uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Sounds like Shogun Extract from Wikipedia : Shōgun is an American television miniseries based on the namesake novel by James Clavell. The miniseries was broadcast over five nights, between September 15 and September 19, 1980, on NBC in the United States. To date, it is the only USA TV show/miniseries to be filmed entirely on location in Japan. Sound stage shots were also done in Japanese studios. There were no Spanish, but Portuguese and the Jesuits. From the Plot description: The story is based on the adventures of English navigator William Adams. The series follows Pilot John Blackthorne's experiences in Japan in the early 17th century. After his ship, the Erasmus, is wrecked along the...

Full answer by knut: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/16043 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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