Shōgun (2024): parents' guide

Graphic and frequent: beheadings, a sailor boiled alive in a cauldron, an assassin who slashes throats, cannon fire that blows apart men and horses, and several seppuku scenes, one shown in detail. A samurai's infant son is condemned and killed offscreen.

The English-speaking hero and sailors swear crudely, with repeated f-words and s-words plus 'whore,' 'bastard' and harsher sexual insults, mostly in the early episodes. Much of the dialogue is Japanese with English subtitles and far milder.

A courtesan bares her breasts before pleasuring a lord, and the lead is shown nude from behind and covering himself from the front. Several couples have sex scenes, some adulterous, with movement and sound but nudity mostly obscured. Crude sexual talk and gestures appear.

Sake is poured at meals and ceremonies and characters sometimes get drunk. One husband turns violent when drinking, hitting his wife and firing an arrow just past her head. No drug use is noted.

Sustained dread and disturbing images: a man screaming as he is boiled alive, severed heads, a young mother whose baby is condemned to die, repeated ritual suicides, a man who shoots himself offscreen, and the wrenching death of a central character late in the season.