Experience a time of war, treachery, and passion when legendary samurai fall and great empires rise. FX’s Shōgun premieres 2.27 on Hulu. Based on James Clavell’s novel, FX’s Shōgun is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.