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    Review: ‘Shogun’ is an epic remake that focuses on feudal Japanese politics over romantic drama

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Feb 27, 2024 3 minutes
    From left, Cosmo Jarvis and Toda Mariko in "Shogun."

    “Shōgun,” James Clavell‘s big novel of lordly machinations in feudal Japan, has for the second time become a big miniseries, premiering Tuesday on FX and Hulu. Every review you read of this series will compare it to “Game of Thrones,” and I will not refrain from stating the obvious. Indeed, I imagine it was an essential part of the pitch that sold the show.

    Set in 1600 on the cusp of the Sengoku and Edo periods, Clavell’s story involves renamed historical characters enacting not necessarily historical events. Its three main

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