Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT FX's Shogun has been a huge hit with critics – already establishing itself as one of the year's best-reviewed TV shows – yet the series' success is actually grounded in thematic connections with an earlier, ostensibly unrelated Jet Li movie. Set in feudal Japan in the early 17th century, Shogun is deliberate in its evocation of historical context and real events.
Related Shogun Finale Ending Explained: Does Toranaga Become Shogun? Shōgun’s finale masterfully concluded the series with an episode that subverted expectations and revealed Lord Yoshii Toranaga’s true goal. What makes Shogun and Hero such interesting companion pieces is the opposing views they provide of union. In Shogun's dramatic ending, it is revealed that Toronaga is just as nakedly ambitious as every other character in the series – determined to cement his own status, with Japan's unification a happy by-product. Hero, by contrast, flips the narrative, with the nation's unification under the Qin becoming enough of a motivation that the assassins are moved to abandon their mission.
Likewise, Hero creates several imaginary characters and places them within a real historical setting. The Warring States period really was defined by multiple assassination attempts, before the Qin dynasty was successfully established – although the highly-stylized sequences seen in Hero are a far cry from reality.
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