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The Pacific Ocean, the year 1600: English pilot John Blackthorne risks everything to carry out his dream of sailing the globe and wresting control of the trade routes between Japan and China from the Portuguese. But a storm forces him to crash ashore in Japan, where he becomes involved in two fateful encounters. The first is with a Japanese warlord who aspires to become Emperor of a united Japan—but whose vision, inspired by an ancient prophecy, involves launching an apocalyptic war on his own countrymen. The second is with a beautiful interpreter who is torn between her own desire for Blackthorne and her love for the future warlord—the man destined to be her husband.