Lord Yoshii Toranaga is based on the real-life shÅ gun Tokugawa Iyeasu, who is considered one of the three great unifiers of Japan. Tokugawa Ieyasu became shÅ gun in 1603, right around the ...

Shōgun is adapted from James Clavell's 1975 best-selling novel, inspired by the story of the famous Japanese leader Lord ...

Ieyasu eventually founded the Tokugawa Shogunate that ruled Japan from ... he later forged a separate peace pact and became a “daimyo” lord obedient to Hideyoshi. The letter is thought ...

After years of bitter strife, the aging samurai lord Tokugawa Ieyasu finally wrested power from Japan's many warring clans and unified them at the turn of the 17th century. Upon being proclaimed ...

SAMURAI WISDOM―TOKUGAWA IEYASU― In the 16th century, Tokugawa Ieyasu put an end to the era of ceaseless civil wars and upheavals and ushered in a time of peace that unified Japan. As the ...

Two years after Hideyoshi's death in 1598, a provincial leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu ... the samurai ideal of unwavering devotion to one's lord, which survives today in the great value that the ...

Lord Tokugawa Tsunatoyo, bound for Edo to be sworn in as the next shogun, is the target of merciless ninja assassins hired by corrupt officials hoping to put their own candidate in his place.

is caught amidst the family feud between the Tokugawa and Toyotomi families. When her father Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu attacks her husband Toyotomi Hideyori's castle, her life takes a sudden turn for ...

When Gandalf (Ian McKellen) says, "I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are evil," in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, most of the people watching are already crying profusely.

Well, fans could either watch the Lord of the Rings movies in order of when they were released or by tracing the story they tell chronologically. The following is a guide on how to check out the ...