There is only one thing we like more than a miniseries and it is one that is also a period drama based on a novel of more than a thousand pages. Add to these ingredients that has swept the last edition of the Emmys, where broke all records and won awards for Best Drama Series; Best Leading Actor (Hiroyuki Sanada), Best Leading Actress (Anna Sawai) and Best Guest Actor (Néstor Carbonell), among others. So it is not surprising that it is also the highest-rated miniseries of 2024 on Rotten Tomatoes.

Such has been the success of ‘Shogun’ that it will no longer be a miniseries and will have second season. However, for now we can enjoy the first one as if it were a closed story. Because, in fact, there are those who believe that it would be more convenient for him to stay like this and not have it. Released on February 27, it has been one of the most ambitious productions of the year in general, and of Disney+ in particular.

With the Feudal Japan as the setting and the Sumarais as the protagonists, ‘Shogun’ is a Japanese term for a general or high-ranking military leader. Over ten episodes, the series adapts the best-selling book of the same name of which it is estimated that more than 15 million copies have been sold worldwide.

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Written by Australian James Clavell, was inspired by the true story of William Adams, a British navigator who reached the shores of Japan in 1600 and witnessed exceptional the rise to power of the Tokugawa shogun. In fact, the secrets that this English sailor, or John Blackthorne, arrives with can help Toranaga with his rise to power in the midst of a clan war and, in turn, end the influence of Blackthorne’s enemies. That is, the Jesuit monks and the Portuguese merchants.

Although, to communicate, Toranaga and Blackthorne need an interpreter: Toda Mariko, a mysterious Christian noblewoman who is the last member of a family fallen from grace. Now, as she serves her lord, Mariko will have to reconcile it with her friendship with Blackthorne, her commitment to the faith that saved her, and her duty to her deceased father.

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