Japan erupted with joy Monday as the samurai series “Shogun” won a record 18 Emmys for its first season. It took home prizes including Outstanding Drama Series, as star and co-producer ...
as he gets drawn into the political power games of Lord Yoshi Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), an isolated but legendary samurai fighting to assert lasting dominance as a Shogun - the Japanese word for ...
who was also an executive producer of “Shogun,” recalled that he even corrected the hand positions of extras playing samurai when they bowed. He was determined to “introduce Japanese culture ...
Daimyo – Feudal lords, landowners, and subordinates to shoguns who were leaders of powerful warrior samurai clans and controlled provinces of Japan. Fief – A piece of land given by a feudal ...
Samurai governments administered the country in tandem with the older imperial ... Ieyasu’s forces won that battle, making him the most powerful daimyō in Japan. In 1603 he was proclaimed shogun and ...
Samurai stories, an essential genre of Japan’s film industry since its inception, have been enjoying a global resurgence lately. FX and Disney’s smash-hit period series Shogun, produced by and ...
The Emmy-winning star of Disney and FX's smash hit period drama also shares some of his favorite samurai films and what he's most excited to explore in Lord Toranaga's next chapter.