It took James Clavell over 30 years to write The Asian Saga, a story that has since been adapted into Shogun on FX and Hulu. The novels take place over three centuries, starting with feudal Japan and ...

Let’s face it: The buzz of FX’s Shōgun on Hulu might have you thinking about reading the books that it’s based on. But, wading through over 2,000 pages in the series is a daunting prospect, to say the ...

Adapted from the bestselling novel by James Clavell, FX's Shogun is an epic adventure exploring feudal Japan. "To think that 50 years later his book is being not only remade but remade so beautifully.

Yoko Shimada and Richard Chamberlain in the 1980 TV adaptation of Shogun - Alamy As a British prisoner of war in Changi Jail during the Second World World War, James Clavell was approached one day by ...

A new adaptation offers a fresh take on James Clavell’s 1975 novel, which fictionalizes the stories of English sailor William Adams, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Japanese noblewoman Hosokawa Gracia ...