It echoes across the lecture theatre of the V&A museum in South Kensington, where the boyish yet sagacious 62-year-old is set to give a talk as part of the Japan Cultural Expo. I ask him about the ...
"Shogun" starts with the arrival of Pilot Major John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) in turn-of-the-17th-century feudal Japan. Five regents rule Japan in the stead of Nakamura Yaechiyo (Sen Mars), ...