US EDITION OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST MAGAZINE
Film
A quirky throat-clearer before something more straightforwardly commercial happens next year
Alexander Larman
The Japan-set drama won virtually everything this year
Largely a fair judgement on a considerable year for television
If you want an eye-watering recreation of early seventeenth century Japan, this may be your cup of sake
James Delingpole
Television
It’s epic, exciting, hideously violent in places — and above all, it makes you want to carry on watching