by JAMES CLAVELL
Another chance to see the award-winning serial in five parts inspired by the true story of Will Adams , an Elizabethan sailor who became the only non-Japanese Samurai. starring
Richard Chamberlain Toshiro Mifune Yoko Shimada Alan Badel
John Rhys-Davies Narrated by Orson WeUes
1: The year is 1600. Japan is dangerously divided, ruled by a Council of Regents which includes two warlords,
Toranaga and Ishido-each cleverly chosen to neutralise the other's ambition to become Shogun, supreme military dictator.
Into this political power struggle fate throws Pilot-
Major John Blackthome , an English navigator, shipwrecked while trying to break the Portuguese monopoly of the silk trade.
Written and produced by ERIC BERCOVIC 1
Directed by JERRY LONDON (R)
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