Richard Chamberlain

Japan at the beginning of the 17th Century, John Blackthorne, an English navigator shipwrecked off the coast of Japan is rescued; he becomes an eyewitness to a deadly struggle involving Tornaga, a feuding warlord intent on becoming Shogun-The Supreme Military Dictator. At the same time, Blackthorne is irresistibly drawn into the turmoil and finds himself vying to become the first-ever Gai-Jin (foreigner) to be a made a Samurai Warrior.