With “Shogun,” Hiroyuki Sanada wanted to get things right. “Sometimes misunderstands our culture,” the actor, one of Japan’s biggest movie stars, told CNN. “So, I wanted to…introduce the world correctly.” He plays Lord Yoshii Toranaga on the acclaimed FX miniseries, an adaptation of James Clavell’s best-selling 1975 novel of the same name. The epic historical drama is set in feudal Japan in 1600, with Toranaga , fighting for his life as his enemies unite against him.
” Indeed, there’s more of an emphasis on telling the story from a Japanese perspective — most of the cast was hired from Japan, and the majority of the dialogue in the show is in Japanese with English subtitles. “In this day and age where the reach of a television show is very global, we’re trying to scratch at something that isn’t being made specifically with one culture’s audience in mind,” said Justin Marks, the series’ co-showrunner and executive producer in an interview released by Disney .
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