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Films & Shows Set during Feudal Japan

Runs from11851868683 years wide

Shelfmark Liber CIII

Medieval Era 45% · Early Modern Era 38% · Revolutionary Era 17%

5
titles
3 films · 2 series (11 eps) · 1 through its sub-periods
4.1/5
average rating
across 5 rated titles
4%
of the span is tagged
4 of 90 titles set inside it

See Feudal Japan on the timelineEvery year from 1185 to 1868 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of Feudal Japan in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

Inside this Archive

1500RanFilm · 1985 · set somewhere between 1500 and 16004.5/51600Sekigaharavia Azuchi–Momoyama PeriodFilm · 2017 · set in 16003.4/51600ShōgunTV series · 10 episodes · set in 16004.3/51633SilenceFilm · 2016 · initially set in 16334.0/51843RyômadenTV series · 1 episode · initially set in 18434.5/5

5 titles · in the order the archive depicts them. A series counts once, regardless of however many of its episodes carry the tag. 1 title here comes through the periods inside this one rather than its own tag, and is counted only because it is set inside these boundaries.

The Chronicle

The events and themes the archive follows through Feudal Japan, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.

  1. 1600
    Battle of SekigaharaMilitary

    The decisive conflict at the close of Japan's Sengoku Period.

  2. 1868
    Meiji RestorationPolitical

Sub-Periods

The periods the archive counts as part of Feudal Japan. Their titles are gathered on this page where they are set inside its boundaries. The number represents how many titles in these sub-periods are also directly attached to this period and how many are just inherited rather being directly tagged with Feudal Japan.

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during Feudal Japan, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen
Ran1985
Most recent
Shōgun2024

FilmsSerieseach bar is the titles released that decade

Cast of Characters

The historical people the archive’s titles put on screen in this period, grouped by what they are known for. The number is how many titles set here they appear in.

Political3

Economic1

Exploration1

Military1

Religious1

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

4%4 of the 90 titles the archive sets between 1185 and 1868 carry the Feudal Japan tag.

6%With its sub-periods: 5 of the same 90 titles carry Feudal Japan or one of Azuchi–Momoyama Period.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

  1. 1185nothing set here
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  4. 1188nothing set here
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Show all 191 yearsShow the first 25 only · 166 more years, from 1304 to 1868
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  66. 16001 of 2 · 2 with sub-periods
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  165. 18670 of 1
  166. 1868nothing set here

191 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 59 of them with nothing set there yet. The dark part of each bar is the share carrying this period; the lighter part beside it, the share carrying one of its sub-periods instead.

Share of the 11 genre taggings across 5 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Credits

Directors

1Akira Kurosawa1 title4.5/5unsalted2Martin Scorsese1 title4.0/5unsalted3Masato Harada1 title3.4/5unsalted

Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Networks

1FX1 title4.3/5unsalted2NHK BS11 title4.5/5unsalted

Series only, counted once each however many episodes carry the period. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Also on the Timeline

Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
Part of itAzuchi–Momoyama Period1568–16001568–1600Battle of Sekigahara2
BeforeViking Age793–1066119 years earliernone shared6
ConcurrentHigh Middle Ages1000–13001185–1300none shared6
ConcurrentIslamic Golden Age786–12581185–1258none shared2
ConcurrentRurikid Dynasty862–15981185–1598none shared1
ConcurrentThe Crusades1095–12911185–1291none shared6
ConcurrentThird Crusade1189–11921189–1192none shared4
ConcurrentNorthern Crusades1195–14101195–1410none shared2
BoundedMongol Conquests1206–13371206–1337none shared2
BoundedTatar Yoke1237–14801237–1480none shared1
BoundedPax Mongolica1250–13501250–1350none shared1
BoundedByzantine–Ottoman Wars1265–14791265–1479none shared1
BoundedWars of Scottish Independence1296–13571296–1357none shared2
BoundedLate Middle Ages1300–15001300–1500none shared13
BoundedAvignon Papacy1309–13761309–1376none shared1
BoundedHundred Years’ War1337–14531337–1453none shared6
BoundedGreat Teutonic War1409–14111409–1411none shared1
BoundedAge of Discovery1415–16501415–1650none shared6
BoundedItalian Renaissance1453–15271453–1527none shared1
BoundedTudor England1485–16031485–1603none shared3
BoundedSpanish Golden Age1492–16591492–1659none shared2
BoundedSpanish Colonization of the Americas1493–16971493–1697none shared3
BoundedProtestant Reformation1517–16481517–1648none shared4
BoundedWar of the League of Cognac1526–15301526–1530none shared1
BoundedCounter-Reformation1545–16481545–1648none shared5
BoundedReign of Akbar1556–16051556–1605none shared1
BoundedFrench Wars of Religion1562–15981562–1598none shared1
ConcurrentRusso-Turkish Wars1568–19181568–1868none shared1
BoundedWar of Cyprus1570–15731570–1573none shared1
BoundedImjin War1592–15981592–1598none shared1
BoundedStuart England1603–17141603–1714none shared2
BoundedGreat Puritan Migration1620–16401620–1640none shared1
BoundedAge of Enlightenment1685–18151685–1815none shared8
BoundedWar of the Spanish Succession1701–17141701–1714none shared1
BoundedPeshwa Era1713–18181713–1818none shared1
BoundedSeven Years' War1756–17631756–1763none shared1
ConcurrentIndustrial Revolution1760–18701760–1868none shared3
BoundedAge of Revolutions1774–18491774–1849none shared19
BoundedAmerican Revolution1775–17831775–1783none shared2
ConcurrentAmerican Frontier1783–19121783–1868none shared17
BoundedFrench Revolution1789–17991789–1799none shared6
BoundedHaitian Revolution1791–18041791–1804none shared1
BoundedNapoleonic Wars1792–18151792–1815none shared11
ConcurrentFilibuster Wars1803–18601803–1860none shared1
BoundedPeninsular War1807–18141807–1814none shared3
BoundedSpanish-American Wars of Independence1808–18301808–1830none shared1
BoundedRegency Era1811–18201811–1820none shared1
ConcurrentAntebellum South1812–18611812–1861none shared1
ConcurrentVictorian Era1837–19011837–1868none shared8
ConcurrentCentury of Humiliation1839–19491839–1868none shared1
ConcurrentNew Zealand Wars1845–18721845–1868none shared1
ConcurrentAmerican Civil War1861–18651861–1865none shared6
ConcurrentWars of German Unification1864–18711864–1868none shared1
ConcurrentOld West1865–18951865–1868none shared14
AfterMeiji Era1868–19121868Meiji Restoration1