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The Shogun tale begins in 1600 with a ghost ship slinking into a small Japanese harbor town. The Erasmus was once part of a five-vessel Dutch fleet with 500 sailors, but after years of skirmishes with the Spanish and Portuguese, plus rampant vitamin deficiencies, only a dozen men remain. The senior officer is John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), a British ship’s pilot who almost immediately finds himself thrust into an escalating local conflict.

The taiko, Japan’s supreme ruler, is dead. His heir is a child, so a tenuous Council of Regents has been put in charge. The clear leader is Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), a brilliant warrior and member of a dynastic family. Although he denies that he has any interest in consolidating power and making himself all-powerful shōgun, suspicions abound — especially from scheming Lord Ishido (Takehiro Hira), who presumably hopes to usurp the heir himself.

March 1, 2025 | 6:19 am