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Sep 17, 2024 · It’s changed slightly in recent years, but for a long time after Last Samurai it felt like any significant Japanese role in a U.S. production went to either Ken Watanabe or Sanada. While Watanane arguably became the bigger movie star thanks to blockbusters such as Inception and Batman Begins, Sanada was the go-to actor for major television ...
Feb 29, 2024 · Sanada has been attached to the series for seven years, both as star and producer. Fifty years after his introduction to Ieyasu’s lessons, he is telling the story of Ieyasu’s rise to power ...
- Geoffrey Bunting
Mar 4, 2024 · After he said yes to becoming a producer, the creative team began to hire a Japanese crew — including local experts in samurai drama — for production. Sanada had clear goals in...
- Kat Moon
Feb 27, 2024 · Sanada first boarded Shogun as the star, but quickly became a producer as well. It wasn’t an empty title; Marks and Kondo wanted to make him a real collaborator.
- Hoai-Tran Bui
Mar 5, 2024 · With Catholic missionaries providing a further antagonistic presence to the Protestant Blackthorne, his survival may depend on an alliance with Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) – who has ...
- James Balmont
Mar 5, 2024 · Hiroyuki Sanada, star and producer of FX’s excellent miniseries Shōgun, is one of the most successful Japanese actors working in Hollywood today.
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Feb 27, 2024 · He received his first-ever producer credit on the show, painstakingly poring over every detail of the production’s lavish, nuanced portrait of feudal Japan. And he found himself giving a ...
