![all posters](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w140/files/images/film/posters/158/311/158311854_3a0c45.jpg)
Directed by:
Jerry LondonScreenplay:
Eric BercoviciCinematography:
Andrew LaszloComposer:
Maurice JarreCast:
Richard Chamberlain, Toshirō Mifune, 島田陽子, Frankie Sakai, Alan Badel, Michael Hordern, Damien Thomas, Vladek Sheybal, Tōru Abe, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Orson Welles (more)Plots(1)
Richard Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, the 17th-century English navigator on a Dutch trading ship. A storm runs the ship aground off the coast of Japan, a "torn and cruelly divided country" locked in a power struggle between Toranaga (Toshiro Mifune) and Ishido, two warlords who would be Shogun. Blackthorne gets over his initial culture shock ("I piss on you and your country", he defiantly proclaims to his samurai captors, which to his humiliation turns out to be an unfortunate choice of words) to become a trusted ally of Toranaga and the lover of the beautiful interpreter Lady Mariko (Yoko Shimada). Their forbidden, ill-fated romance--and Blackthorne's total assimilation into Japanese culture--is set against political intrigue as Toranaga prepares for the inevitable showdown with Ishido, and Blackthorne's growing influence threatens the local Jesuits who had built up a lucrative trade monopoly. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Richard Chamberlain](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/379/161379609_c08aff.jpg)
Richard Chamberlain
USA
Best movies:
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Shogun (1980) (series)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
![Toshirō Mifune](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268053_2ff826.jpg)
Toshirō Mifune
China
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
![島田陽子](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274584_33acc1.jpg)
島田陽子
Japan
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series)
The Castle of Sand (1974)
Shogun (1980) (TV movie)
Frankie Sakai
Japan
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series)
47 Ronin (1962)
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
![Alan Badel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/465/465118_112e78.jpg)
Alan Badel
UK
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Shogun (1980) (series)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
![Michael Hordern](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/527/161527020_25ef13.jpg)
Michael Hordern
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Shogun (1980) (series)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Damien Thomas
Egypt
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series)
Jane Eyre (1983) (series)
Julius Caesar (1970)
![Vladek Sheybal](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/906/157906647_abb00b.jpg)
Vladek Sheybal
Poland
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series)
The Last Valley (1971)
Marco Polo (1982) (series)
Tōru Abe
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Shogun (1980) (series)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Hiroshi Hasegawa
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi (1989)
Shogun (1980) (series)
![Orson Welles](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267527_357cbf.jpg)
Orson Welles
USA
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series) - narrator
Waterloo (1970)
Citizen Kane (1941)
![John Rhys-Davies](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267400_1e5f01.jpg)
John Rhys-Davies
UK
Best movies:
高松英郎
Japan
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Grave Of The Fireflies (2005) (TV movie)
![Seiji Miyaguchi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/279/279848_3a706d.jpg)
Seiji Miyaguchi
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Early Summer (1951)
Seven Samurai (1954)
![Neil McCarthy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/496/496895_cbed1e.jpg)
Neil McCarthy
UK
Best movies:
The Hill (1965)
Shogun (1980) (series)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
![Miiko Taka](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/059/364/59364324_c9dd72.jpg)
Miiko Taka
USA
![William Morgan Sheppard](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/785/162785479_4eb7ff.jpg)
William Morgan Sheppard
UK
Best movies:
The Prestige (2006)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Shogun (1980) (series)
![宅麻伸](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/893/160893187_ff2aff.jpg)
宅麻伸
Japan
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series)
Survival Family (2017)
Shogun (1980) (TV movie)
Eric Richard
UK
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series)
Little Dorrit (1987)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
George Innes
UK
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series)
Stardust (2007)
The Medusa Touch (1978)