1980 Shogun, starring Richard Chamberlain, also reinforced the white savior trope, far too common in film, television, and ...

It also reimagines the hugely successful 1980 TV series, starring Richard Chamberlain ... samurai fighting to assert lasting dominance as a Shogun - the Japanese word for a military dictator.

Let's explore: "Shogun" first made TV history as a landmark 1980 miniseries, also based on Clavell's book, starring Richard ...

Foreign film fans at the time knew him as the star of the original Seven Samurai. But the chemistry between Chamberlain as Blackthorne, and the Japanese actor Yoko Shimada as his translator Mariko, ...