In a time when both God and gold define the tense relations between Japan and Manila, the galleon San Felipe gets stranded in the land of the rising sun. There, the fate of its passengers now lies in the hands of the most powerful warlord in Japan: Toyotomi Hideyoshi!

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Image: Mural from Cuernavaca, Mexico, published in the Academy of Christian Art.

Additional audio from Shogun, © FX.

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