by JAMES CLAVELL
A serial in five parts starring
Richard Chamberlain Toshiro Mifune Yoko Shimada Alan Badel and John Rhys-Davies
Narrated by Orson Welles 2: After his first terrifying and humiliating experience of Japanese customs in Anjiro, Blackthorne has been brought before Toranaga,
Lord of the Kwanto, the eight Provinces and Chief General of the Armies of the East in Osaka Castle. Toranaga shows interest in Blackthorne but is himself trapped within the castle Walls at the mercy of his hated enemy, Lord Ishido, Protector of the Heir and Chief General of the Armies of the West. Ishido had demanded the foreigner's Imprisonment in Osaka's death row prison and Blackthorne now awaits his fate - crucifixion! For no one incarcerated there has yet survived ...
Written and produced by ERIC BERCOVICI
Directed by JERRY LONDON (R) * CEEFAX SUBTITLES