Quick Review: Shogun

[Tom Wolper]

Streaming on Hulu. Take a 1975 white savior adventure based on the 1603 accession of Tokugawa Iyesu to a unified shogunate, remove the Eurocentrism and mysogyny, get a Japanese cast and crew including advisors to make the characters talk and look like they are from the period, and this is what you’ll get. Even though it was filmed in Western Canada, it feels like a Japanese series. It’s mostly in subtitled Japanese though there’s a dubbed version available. I’m finding it very enjoyable.