{"id":62274,"date":"2024-03-01T21:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/01\/disney-series-shogun-breaks-mould-with-careful-respect-for-japanese-culture"},"modified":"2024-03-01T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:37:29","slug":"disneys-shogun-breaks-mould-with-careful-respect-for-japanese-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62274","title":{"rendered":"Disney\u2019s Sh\u014dgun breaks mould with careful respect for Japanese culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High-budget series with largely Japanese cast avoids well-worn western orientalist fantasies and wins plaudits in Japan<\/p>\n<p>Japanese audiences could have been forgiven for bracing themselves when Disney announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2024\/feb\/27\/shogun-review-a-mesmerising-epic-that-goes-big-on-the-gore\">Sh\u014dgun<\/a>, a 10-part adaptation of James Clavell\u2019s classic 1975 novel.<\/p>\n<p>With few exceptions, Hollywood depictions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> and the Japanese have relied on one-dimensional characters whose purpose is to confirm cultural stereotypes, set against the backdrop of an inscrutable archipelago whose people have much to learn from the western hero.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/01\/disney-series-shogun-breaks-mould-with-careful-respect-for-japanese-culture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-budget series with largely Japanese cast avoids well-worn western orientalist fantasies and wins plaudits in JapanJapanese audiences could have been forgiven for bracing themselves when Disney announced Sh\u014dgun, a 10-part adaptation of James Clavel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,2438,1533,88,238,520,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-disney","category-drama","category-japan","category-media","category-television","category-television-radio","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62275,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62274\/revisions\/62275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}