Drama FX’s Shogun | Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai

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[BlackFox]

Glad this show is getting the recognition it deserves at award season. Fully deserved and still surprised we are going to get more, just hope the level of the first season can be kept up.

 

[OrbOfConfusion]

While I'm overjoyed at Shogun doing big at the Emmys and it no doubt deserves all the wins it got, I am extremely nervous because now FX and especially Disney are going to go all-in and probably announce five more seasons of the show. I maintain that while I'm intrigued by this second season, I still don't think it's needed. But, we shall see.

 

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Shogun was my favourite show this year! Hiroyuki and Anna deserved the wins!

Started watching the 1980 miniseries with Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Misfune for the first time with my roommate, so we can watch the 2024 version immediately after and compare them. Also plan on reading the novel as well.

Also great to see John Rhys-Davies there in the original.

 

[Hunter Rider]

The show absolutely deserved that record haul of wins, especially Ana Sawai, a career making performance for her, Lady Mariko will be sorely missed in seasons 2 and 3.

 

[Kaleb]

To think I almost skipped this show, because of how annoying I found her character in that The Apple TV Godzilla series.

 

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ShÅgun proves you donât need dragons and bare bottoms for compelling drama | Zoe Williams

Itâs official: cheap, violent thrills are out; detailed trade negotiations are in. ShÅgunâs Emmy-winning haul suggests cerebral viewing is back in vogue

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[MarvelFan]

Finally finished the show after went hiatus after eps 3 😅 but then decide to watch and finish the rest.

After watching the whole series, despite my previous complaint about some of its old stereotype trope, it's still a good show. Production quality, especially the costumes were great.

Also, even though the production went for Japanese authenticity, I thought the acting, directing, and editing had a very western feel. But the acting overall was very good, although some of the actors I felt had a strong contemporary vibe, such as Hira Takehiro, Asano, and especially Anna Sawai, who not only seemed to me like someone from today, but I thought she had a very Nikkei aura.

In contrast, I thought Hoshi Moeka did a fantastic job as Fuji, and I really believed she was a woman from that setting. In fact, she was by far my favorite thing about the whole production.

One last observation is that the opening credits sequence was clearly copying Game of Thrones, lol.

Too bad they didnt show the Battle of Sekigahara. But then there will be season 2 and 3. For me and for those who familiar with Japanese history, of course there is no spoiler or surprise of how the story will unfold next (unless they are planning to make their own story and completely ignoring the real event in history).

Ieyasu/Toranaga won the battle of Sekigahara and established the Tokugawa bakufu (shogunate) in 1603 (guess it will be called Toranaga bakufu in the show) and later wiped out all of his remaining rivals in the Siege of Osaka in 1615 to solidified his position as the undisputed ruler of Japan (just one year before his death in 1616) and his descendants rule the nation peacefully for 200+ years (during this time Japan had closed its border to foreigner and completely isolated from the rest of the world) until in 1853, the American warships led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan, and brought on another bloody turmoil among the samurais for the next 15 years until 1868 when the last descendant of the Shogun abdicated his rule and restore the power to the Emperor to his ancient seat of power, that led to the total abolishment of samurai class and Japan went into modern and industrialized era.

I definitely won't expect the show to go that far until that point. But if they're planning to follow the history as road map for S2 and S3, then I expect S2 will focus on loosely adapting the Battle of Sekigahara and its aftermath and finally for the finale season of S3, the Siege of Osaka Castle.

 

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