SHOGUN: Co-creator Rachel Kondo discusses new mini-series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/16/2024
SHOGUN miniseries Key Art | ©2024 FX Networks

The miniseries SHŌGUN, now running Tuesday nights on FX and available for streaming on Hulu, is the second adaptation of James Clavell’s epic 1975 bestseller. The first adaptation was an NBC miniseries in 1980. All concern a power struggle in 1600s Japan that comes to involve an English ship’s navigator, who is folded into the retinue of shrewd Lord Toranaga. However, both the NBC edition and the book itself are primarily from the Western point of view. The new version is told more from the Japanese perspective. Executive producers (who are also married to one another) Rachel Kondo & Justin […]Read On »


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SHOGUN: Actor and producer Hiroyuki Sanada on new FX mini-series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/27/2024
SHOGUN miniseries Key Art | ©2024 FX Networks

SHŌGUN, FX’s ten-part limited series, premieres Tuesday, February 27, with episodes available the same day on Hulu. Based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel about a power struggle in 1600s Japan that comes to involve an English ship’s navigator, SHŌGUN had previously been adapted as a television miniseries in 1980. However, both that miniseries and the book itself are primarily from the Western point of view. The new version, created for television by executive producers Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks, is told more from the Japanese perspective. To this end, actor Hiroyuki Sanada was brought on board not only to play […]Read On »


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