Sh?gun is coming to Hulu in February. FX announced a premiere date, Feb. 27, for the period drama in a press release yesterday. Sh?gun is based on the James Clavell novel of the same name, the first book in his Asian Saga. The show is described as "an epic saga of war, passion, and power set in Feudal Japan." Hiroyuki Sanada produces the series and stars as Lord Yoshii Toranaga. The cast also includes Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Fumi Nikaido, Tokuma Nishioka and Takehiro Hira. Sh?gun opens in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Toranaga (Sanada) is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him. Sh?gun will have a two-episode premiere Feb. 27 on Hulu in the U.S.