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Shōgun

Created by Justin Marks & Rachel Kondo · 2024–present ·

Answer Summary: Is Shōgun worth watching?

Shōgun (2024–present) earns a 91% Celluloid Score — Celluloid Pick. Recommended overall. Created by Justin Marks & Rachel Kondo; stream on Hulu.

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Calculated from four inputs (Celluloid editorial, Metascore, IMDb and TMDB fan rating). Audience sentiment is shown separately. See how we calculate scores.

91%
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99/100Editorial Rating
91%Audience · excluded
89Metascore
8.6IMDb /10
89%Fan Score
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Seasons
1 · 10 episodes
Network
Hulu
Streaming
Hulu
Cast
Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Takehiro Hira
Country
United States
Language
Japanese

Where to watch Shōgun

Shōgun is available on Hulu — regional notes: Hulu in the United States; Disney+ in the United Kingdom; Disney+ in Indonesia. Catalog platform tag: Hulu.

Where to watch Shōgun by country

Country Streaming on
India Disney+ Hotstar
Indonesia Disney+
Japan Disney+
Malaysia Disney+
South Korea Disney+
Thailand Disney+
Turkey Disney+
United Kingdom Disney+
United States Hulu

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Is Shōgun worth watching?

Yes — Shōgun earns a 91% Celluloid Score. Celluloid Pick, created by Justin Marks & Rachel Kondo and streaming on Hulu.

Celluloid Verdict

A masterful, immersive epic of feudal Japan — visually stunning, politically intricate, and carried by a towering Hiroyuki Sanada performance.

Celluloid editorial verdict

What is Shōgun about?

At the dawn of 17th-century Japan, a shipwrecked English navigator becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between feuding warlords on the eve of civil war. As he adapts to an unfamiliar culture, a cunning lord and a mysterious noblewoman maneuver toward the shogunate.

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Critic Reviews

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Shōgun Review: The Epic That Dethrones the White Savior

FX's Shōgun reinvents Clavell's doorstop novel by quietly shifting the camera off its English castaway and onto the Japanese court around him — a political epic told, at last, from the inside, in its own language.

A sumptuous, intelligent triumph that reclaims a colonial-era story for the culture it depicts. Prestige television at its most assured.

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Yes — Shōgun scores 91% on Celluloid. A masterful, immersive epic of feudal Japan — visually stunning, politically intricate, and carried by a towering Hiroyuki Sanada performance. Stream on Hulu.