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Miss Shōgun? Here’s What to Watch Next.
For those not quite ready to leave the world of the series behind.
Akira Kurosawa directed many great films set in Japan’s feudal past, including classics like The Seven Samurai, the strange and haunting Macbeth riff Throne of Blood, the Star Wars-inspiring The Hidden Fortress, and the 1980 comeback Kagemusha, any of which are worth watching at any time. Still active at 91, Nakadai also starred in this stunning Masaki Kobayashi film in which he plays Tsugumo Hanshirō, a ronin who arrives at the court of a powerful clan and announces his intention to take his life via seppuku (also called harakiri) rather than live as a masterless samurai with few prospects in the peaceful Japan of 1640. Adapting Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel was a Martin Scorsese passion project for decades, one he finally realized with this intense, moving film starring Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver as Portuguese priests who travel to Japan in search of a mentor (Liam Neeson) who’s said to have renounced his faith.
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