Samurai drama Shōgun explores what happens when an English sailor named John Blackthorne (Peaky Blinders star Cosmo Jarvis) lands in Japan in 1600, right as the country is on the cusp of civil war.
Initially captured and imprisoned on the charge of piracy, Blackthorne is granted a reprieve of sorts when Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Westworld's Hiroyuki Sanada) realises that he could prove a useful ally in his struggle against arch rival Ishido Kazunari (Giri/Haji's Takehiro Hira) — and Blackthorne begins to learn the ways of the samurai.
