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Lavish, graphically violent swashbuckling: Disney+'s Shogun reviewed

16 March 2024

9:00 AM

16 March 2024

9:00 AM

Shogun

Disney+

Here’s a frightening thought for those of you who remember the original Shogun (1980), starring Richard Chamberlain as the Elizabethan navigator who ends up playing kingmaker amid the power struggles in the Japan of 1600. We are now further away in time from that series than that series was from the beginning of the second world war.

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