Will Adams
An Elizabethan mariner reaches Japan under terrible hardships, only to find himself under sentence of death at the hands of his fellow Europeans.
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The first Englishman in Japan overcame the prejudice of his Portuguese rivals to became a Samurai, and one of the most trusted men in the land.
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