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Star and producer Hiroyuki Sanada has reportedly agreed to come back as Toranaga.
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From "full hardcore colonialist" Blackthorne to the tragedy of Albon Caradoc, why Anjin's backstory was left largely blank.
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"Emily Yoshida reminded me the Uncut Gems reference that we always used to use in the writer's room for Yabushige."
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Have questions about what happened? What comes next? We've got you covered.
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"Like what would the Yabushige Chronicles look like?" "Like, Yabushige goes to London, you know?"
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"Ochiba is clearly who Mariko is actually facing off with."
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Could we have actually avoided tragedy??
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Cosmo Jarvis and Shōgun creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo also break the tense sequence down.
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"I hope that people remember her as an Akechi rather than a Toda," Sawai said of Mariko's embrace of her father's name.
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"We had hair and makeup consultations, we had fittings, we discussed their back stories," Kondo said.
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The FX show was aiming more for Cloud City than the Red Wedding for this one.
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Showrunner Justin Marks explains how they worked with the Clavell estate to make these major changes.
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Shōgun's showrunners swapped Blackthorne's musket regime for a more historically accurate chain shot.
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Sawai also confided in Decider that Shōgun was her first project that made her "proud" as a Japanese woman.
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Shōgun's showrunners explain why Blackthorne's "Peerless Part" was left in 1975.
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Cosmo Jarvis was working on a "wispy, high" voice before showrunner Rachel Kondo gave him a note.
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The sprawling, 10-episode miniseries is definitely more loyal to the historical Japanese aspects of James Clavell's novel than the classic 1980 miniseries was.