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“Shogun” Broke Emmy Record With 18 Wins in One Season

© 2024, FX. All Rights Reserved. Shogun was honored with four awards, including best drama series. Anna Sawai received the title of best actress in a drama series, while Hiroyuki Sanada became the first Japanese actor to win the category. Frederick E.O. Toye won best directing for the show. Hacks won the surprise Best Comedy Series award…

Shogun : Exclusive Interview with Producer Eriko Miyagawa on Working with Hiroyuki Sanada to Create an Authentic Period Piece

© 2024, FX. All Rights Reserved. Shogun : Set in Japan in the year 1600, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village. Producer : Hiroyuki Sanada, Eriko Miyagawa, Erin Smith, Tom…

Pachinko — Season 2 Official Trailer | Apple TV+ : Starring Lee Minho, Minha Kim, Anna Sawai, Yuh-Jung Youn

©Courtesy of Apple TV+ Apple TV+  has dropped a first trailer for the second season of its award-winning and critically hailed, epic hit drama Pachinko. Told in three languages — Korean, Japanese, and English — and consisting of eight, one-hour episodes, season two of Pachinko will premiere globally on Friday, August 23 with one episode, followed…

FX’s ‘Shogun’ and ‘The Bear’ Lead Emmy Nominations List

Shogun and The Bear have emerged at the top of the nomination list for this year’s 78th Emmy Awards, which were announced this morning. The final winners will be announced at the official awards ceremony scheduled to be broadcast live by ABC on Sunday September 15, though a host for the Los Angeles ceremony has…

FX’s ‘Shōgun’ Garnered Four Awards from Television Critics Association

FX’s Shōgun will be receiving four awards at tonight’s 40th annual Television Critics Association awards ceremony, according to an advance announcement by the TCA. The event, hosted by Wendi McLendon-Covey of The Goldbergs and St Denis Medical, will be the association’s first in-person ceremony in five years. More than 230 professional television journalists from the…

Apple TV+ to Premiere Season Two of “Pachinko” on Friday, August 23

©Courtesy of Apple TV+ Apple TV+ unveiled a first-look and the premiere date for the second season of its award-winning and critically hailed, epic hit drama Pachinko. Told in three languages — Korean, Japanese, and English — and consisting of eight, one-hour episodes, season two of Pachinko will premiere globally on Friday, August 23 with…

FX and Hulu to Develop Two More Seasons of ‘Shogun’

Hiroyuki Sanda, Courtesy of FX     FX and Hulu confirmed this week that they are in the process of developing two more seasons of Shōgun, based on James Clavell’s epic 1975 novel set in Edo-period Japan. To accomplish these goals, a writers’ room will get underway this summer to map out a creative strategy….

Shogun May Not Return for a Second Season on FX

© 2024, FX. All Rights Reserved. Despite popular and critical acclaim, Shogun may not be returning for a second season on FX, says showrunner and co-creator Justin Marks. Marks told The Hollywood Reporter this week that the production team may have run out of creative juice to expand on what James Clavell had written in his…

Shōgun : Exclusive Interview with Actors Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, Producer Eriko Miyagawa

©Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki I had a chance to speak with cast Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai and Producer Eriko Miyagawa of a highly anticipated series, “Shōgun” at the Japan Society.  Shōgun : Set in Japan in the year 1600, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite…

‘Shōgun’ is an Enthralling Japanese Historical Epic

It’s impossible to truly know what life was like and how people actually behaved hundreds of years ago. There are written records, paintings and then photographs, and, in more recent years, gradually more available video evidence so that those in the present day can perceive a moderately insightful look into the past. Imagining the first…

Mari Yamamoto on Monarch : Legacy of Monsters

Synopsis : This 10-episode drama series focuses on the Monarch, a special agency that appears in Monster Verse films. Mari Yamamoto plays Keiko, a Japanese scientist who went to the U.S. in the 1950s to study radiation and its effects, and is one of the founding members of “Monarch. Keiko is also the grandmother of the series’…