Hiroyuki Sanada in the Shogun finale
The Big Picture It may have come as something of a surprise when FX's historical epic Shōgun concluded not with a hail of cannon fire or a clash of swords, but through the route of a somewhat more peaceful epilogue, allowing us as well as the characters to sit back and reflect on everything that's happened up until now. While Lord Yoshii Toranaga finally secured the support he needed in order to defeat his enemies, a victory of this magnitude didn't come without a powerful cost.
Release Date February 27, 2024 Cast Anna Sawai , Hiroyuki Sanada , Tadanobu Asano , Yûki Kedôin Main Genre Drama Seasons 1 Network FX Streaming Service Hulu COLLIDER: I’m a little emotionally devastated, but I feel like that's par for the course after these last few episodes.One of my fellow journalists tweeted something like, “Where's the emotional support group for Episode 8?”
RACHEL KONDO: I didn't know people filmed themselves watching something. To see people's reaction to these things that, obviously, we painstakingly, moment-by-moment, frame-by-frame, had to make, so it's taken out the juice for us, to see the reactions, I'm like, “Oh, my!” MARKS: I love your phrasing on how many hats he wore. His hat game on camera was one of my favorite things through production. It’s like, “This hat is awesome. There’s no way you’re gonna get Hiro to wear this hat,” and he was like, “Absolutely, I'm gonna wear this hat.” It happened time and time again.
'Shōgun's Creators Explain Why the Show Is Actually Mariko's Story It speaks to the strength of the character work on the show where you can watch something like Episode 9, that he's not even necessarily in, and everybody else is just firing on all cylinders. To that end, I wanted to ask about making Episode 9 so much of an ode to Mariko and Anna Sawai.
KONDO: If I can tweak that a bit, I think it is the story of both Toranaga and Blackthorne discovering that it's not their stories, and understanding that their stories are only going to be told almost through the telling of her story. KONDO: The placement in the book was Chapter 31, which would have been in or around Episode 4, and that felt very early in the writers’ room, not only for Blackthorne as the character we were portraying in the show but also for us as a room. To wrap our heads around that felt very precarious.
KONDO: And he's able to see her because it's the one moment that he can just quiet himself and his own point of view, right? This is what people struggle with... particularly males, should I say? But that’s zeroing yourself out. Eastern versus Western — at the end of the day, it's just people and their impulses.
MARKS: We shot it because it's my favorite line in the book, and Emily was insistent on getting it in. “I enjoyed our time together, but ultimately, it had no harmony, and I'm glad for it to end,” is what she said. And she said it to him, and Blackthorne, who doesn't understand a word of it, is like, “Uh huh. Yeah!” which was so funny in the scene, but at that point, too, it just didn't fit that scene as it was shot in Episode 10, so we had to cut it.
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