🏯 Sharpen your throwing star and tie off your topknot—because “Shogun” is a stunning, sweeping epic in an entertainingly violent 15th-century Japan. Based on the James Clavell bestseller, this FX series debuted last month with a masterful blend of English- and Japanese-speaking performances and has quickly become the talk of Hollywood (though I do wonder if its commendable use of Japanese dialogue is slowing its meme culture). 🎑 As “Shogun” starts, a British sailor finds himself washes ashore in the Land of the Rising Sun, where storm clouds darken the horizon. A war between the country’s great houses looms, and that sailor falls in with one clan lord, Toranaga, played with steely cunning by veteran actor Hiroyuki Sanada (“John Wick: Chapter 4,” “Westworld,” “47 Ronin”). It’s all dead bodies, the body politic—and business, with the competition between European nations to commercialize Japanese trade further complicating the combustible situation. 🎌 hulu.com/series/shogun-54..