Great interview. Nice to know that if they or FX doesn't feel good about the follow-up, they won't proceed! The shows was TOO GOOD for it to have a horrible S2.
I think we are losing a great deal of very good if not excellent TV thinking that subsequent seasons or spin offs must be better than the first so we get horrible cancellations & disappointments when studios suddenly drop a perfectly good series. In this case Shogun can easily stand alone so isn't the best example but so often certain studios just drop a work after an 8 episode season, gone are years of really good TV entertainment with 15 or more episodes & while I understand some reasons, too often it's just arbitrary. Some major person just wants to do other work, or salaries skyrocket, worst is wanting a guarantee of "better". I'm not saying I would be happy with bad writing or production but costumes & locations can be reused, production can be very good without aiming to be better every season; a balance must be struck between just dropping great vehicles willy nilly & expecting greater results every year. Longer running shows obviously will have ups & downs but i would rather deal with that than to leave good properties hanging & producing only to shorter & shorter seasons & runs. The result is less and less viewer loyalty to both the shows & their managers, and decreasing interest over all which long term will damage TV as a great entertainment medium in a time when movies too are becoming less important. I don't mean art, and production doesn't matter, I just think it's been too easily discarded in the last several years. Again, I'm ranting about TV in general. Shogun is excellent & it can be ended here without ruining it, but I would like to se the subsequent history, the establishment of the Edo era & the Tokagawa Shogunate. We have too little of that type of show but it doesn't have to be better, just not slaughtered for costs or given over to bad writing. I hope there's a way!
Considering how badly I didn’t want the story of Shogun to continue (since the book ends where Season One ends), the fact that this interview got me so HYPED for more story says a lot about how much I LOVED what these showrunners had to say, and how confident I feel about their abilities to continue it.
I keep reading these kind of comments. These two produced something absolutely amazing. Why the fing flip do u not want a second season? They'll obviously do right by the show. They're not gonna make something dumb after winning 18 emmys. Why would u short slightly assume season 2 would suck?
With all of the streaming services trying to make “the next Game of Thrones”, I feel this series production value and excellence in characters, writing, QUALITY has been the closest to level of transporting people in an EPIC way. I am of the generation that was goo goo ga ga over Richard Chamberlain and the mini series at the time. As a junior in High School I read Shogun and started thinking in Japanese. I have read the book at least 4 times. VERY excited about getting to revisit so many of the beloved characters and first rate story telling. Thank you so much!
Amazing interview. I'm convinced only Justin and Rachel, working with FX, were the only ones who could have made this show as good as it was. This team gives me full confidence that a season 2 and potentially more could be as good as the first, or nearly so, since they have a through-line defined by history, and such an amazing team of writers, historians and creatives bridging both cultures. The love and care for its execution is paramount, and serves as a guide for how both book adaptations and historical fiction should be treated. It's nothing short of astonishing really.
I just finished watching Shogun. What a fantastic show! I became a fan of Justin Marks when I saw Counterpart a few years back. I was so disappointed when that show was not renewed for a third season. Justin and all others involved in that project created an incredible world and I was sad not to be able to see the whole arc of that story. That is why I’m incredibly happy that Shogun has been such an incredible success and that Justin and his collaborators will be able to bring us an extended story and experience over multiple seasons. Fingers crossed as I look forward to the next season!!
Anna Sawai has come a long way since her J-Pop days. I can't wait to see where she goes from here. It's only been like, 5 years since she shifted her focus from singing to pursuing acting seriously, and her career is really starting to take off.
I first saw her in Monarch on Apple TV and I was like 'Okay not bad" But then Shogun came out and I could really tell that she was being held back with that writing in that last show, because MY GOD she made Shogun be as great as it did. Emmy worthy!
Will Adams spent the rest of his life in Japan as envoy and mercantile agent for the Shogun. He married a Japanese lady and raised a family. His history is quite well documented and he is still celebrated annually in Japan. Can't wait to see a second series.
This! I was at first concerned with them adding a second and third season considering the began and finished the first season so well. I was worried they'd have the GOT issue of not having source material, but that can lean on history! That is reassuring to me that they'll have a lot of inspiration to tell more stories with these characters. That said, they set the tone so high with the first season that they have to really knock it out the park to hopefully capture the same magic.
yes but he was very much the main character of that story even in reality. the dude altered the history of the world. I'm not sure they could pivot into that after making him a buffoon in this series (technical term for comedic character of this type).
Too bad they had to deviate so badly from history to slander Hosokawa Gracia and Hosokawa Tadaoki in the first season. Just to make up a ridiculous romance of people that never even met and make a superhero out of a woman who never even left her mansion in Osaka. Lol
@@joeyartk It isn't a documentary. It is an historical drama. In addition, why are you attacking them? They adapted a novel, so take it up with James Clavell although he is dead. Did you even watch the video? How did he slander Hosokawa Gracia or Hosokawa Tadaoki? Clavell changed the names of all the main historical figures preciously so that people don't confuse his fictionalized characters with the actual historical people. In addition, Mariko and Blackthorn are praiseworthy and likable protagonists in the novel and the two adaptions. Moreover, in Japan Hosokawa Gracia has been depicted in Japanese literature, stage drama, movie and TV dramas, anime, and videos games from 1887 onward. Where are you complaints here? It is clear no actually do not know the history.
This show was phenomenal, i loved every second of it. It makes me really happy that a 2nd season is coming but also a bit frustrated to wait for it. What a great show! It's been a while since i've been this excited.
I would like to have heard more from Rachel Kondo--Marks really spoke 75 percent of the time, but I'm sure Kondo's input was vital. I would have liked to have heard more of her perspective.
Showrunners !! Very cool! I started getting interested in showrunners with Noah Hawley, following him from Fargo to Legion (should have been a big hit, very cool show), etc
I have a full-on crush on Fuji. I am hoping she becomes Blackthorne's wife, as the character he is based on did marry a Japanese woman and raised a family there.
@@AugustSeria She is the granddaughter of Hiromatsu. You know that "genius" skips a generation. It will be really interesting to find that not only is she a brave Onna-musha but also a proper descendant of her grandfather as a skillfully mastermind. Being a nun it's not a "happy ending" to someone with so many connections and prospects on Japanese society of the time. Specially a woman that had it twice as hard (at least). Adams (real life Blackthorne) loved Japanese culture. And sided with the Japanese side practically from the day 0. Really important because he was pivotal on establishing relationship with Dutch traders (which contributed to take out power from the Christian Daimios). Blackthorne is different in this regard. It will be interesting to see why he chooses to stay in Japan (because if they follow the real life Adams he will have plenty of opportunities to return to England in the future) and why he will choose to side with Japanese interests when he establishes relationship with the Dutch merchants (at first the Dutch thought that Adams "was his man in Japan". But soon enough they learned that the situation was much more complicated).
Watching this show I could feel the love and dedication poured into it from every facet. It's great to see great television with amazing characters come to life. Can't wait for the second season.
The natural end is the Siege of Osaka Castle in 1615. Tokugawa Ieyasu died shortly after. William Adams would live for five more years, dying in 1620 leaving behind his Japanese wife, a son, and a daughter.
The real life people were just an outline for fictional characters. But it makes sense...with Toranaga gone, Blackthorns protection is gone. I think they should take another Caville book & produce it.
I keep going on Shogun threads promoting the idea of a prequel revolving around Yabushige and Ishido’s time in Korea, but if I am reading this interview correctly, and the Battle of Sekigahara IS something on the table that they will work up toward, and the natural conclusion (historically should be the Siege of Osaka Castle) if so, they could TOTALLY have an episode or two with flashbacks of Hideyoshi’s (Taiko) unsuccessful endeavor’s (thru Korea) to topple Ming China. At least that way we can get more Yabushige. Heck!! throw in some flashback episodes of Mariko and the Monk. Hey, let’s not stop there, let’s also get an episode that shows what happened in Macau. Finally, this is most important probably for Season 3. Choose who plays Sanada Yukimura very carefully. In the Siege of Osaka, Iyeyasu (Toranaga) was the one doing the sieging, yet due to Yukimura’s heroics, he had to seriously consider seppuku as capture seemed imminent. Who the hell can play this role…..? They will need to find another unicorn like they did with Anna Sawai. If that is even possible, otherwise we’ll just have to hire Dwayne Johnson😂
I'd like to see how the shogun closes Japan, how samurai fall into decay to become ronins, maybe some history into the other 2 previous shogun. How eso flourish and how the heir lost his right for the throne.
Such an amazing accomplishment. Many of us were absolutely mesmerized by the show and felt real melancholy over its end. Hoping their plans for future seasons come to fruition!
Usually when creators go off script from the source material, 99.99% of the time, it is worse. The series ended when the book ended. Where is the story going to go?
Honestly, why? I think this really completed the series, it doesn't need to go any further. It was amazing for what it was, a solid 8/10 for me and honestly a must watch for a lot of people. But I think it's one of those things that you need to let it pass, otherwise it will quickly become simplistic and too familiar to the audience to capture that 'another world' kind of vibe.
As much as I loved the show I'd prefer them to create something else, like in another interview Justin mentioned James Clavells book about Hong Kong. But I'm still going to watch it. Probably the next seasons were ordered by network because of the money and showrunners were proposed a pretty huge pay.
I don't care what anyone says. I have been waiting my entire life for a series covering Samurai history. This show did such an amazing job with the world building and characters that it seems like it would be such a waste to end it. Plus it delivered on everything except action and war. The series ending before it showed any type of war was extremely unsatisfying. I know that's not the point of the book but war was the Samurai's entire purpose for existing, and to not put that on display was extremely wasted potential.
Extending the story of Shogun beyond the original is a marvellous intention, there is no particular reason why this could not become a wider history of the feudal period in Japanese history. I hope Hiro will continue his marvellous work.
Maybe because most first impressions of him, based on his younger roles as a Ninja in the 80s, feels so wrong when he now takes a Samurai's role. You know, the old Ninja vs Samurai hype.
Considering historical facts, in the next season, Buntaro will follow in his father Hiromatsu's footsteps and become Toranaga's right-hand man, and will go on a rampage at the Battle of Sekigahara, capturing Ishido and kill him by burying him in the ground. During that time, Blackthorn trains his marines in artillery and also falls in love with a female villager. In the next season, Toranaga will attack Osaka Castle and kill Ochiha and his heir in order to create a peaceful era. Blackthorn cannons will be useful on that battlefield. Toranaga would then become a Shogun, and Blackthorn would be honored and swear lifelong loyalty to Toranaga. After all Catholics are expelled, Blackthorn will marry the villager woman and live happily ever after in Japan. That's the synopsis of this history. I'd like to see how they adapt this to impress us.
If they are so intent on accurately portraying sepuku, why didn't they have Mariko try to cut the artery in her neck the way women were supposed to do it, not slit her abdomen. And they didn't need a second either.
I just finished the book...an hour ago. Some of the changes from bookstore miniseries were understandable. Others were weird. This was one of the weird changes.
Great show, but the fact that John Blackthorne's story arc became almost a part role compared to the book, was a real shame as he was the main character in the story (based on William Adams a real-life character) and his journey was incredible... The culture shock between Europeans and Japanese, with extra spice from the religious conflicts thrown in, was a big miss from the producers, those of you who have read the book will know what I mean
My impossible wish would be for them to go off script and bring Mariko back (by her not being dead and faking her death and burial). She played her character so damn well and her chemistry with John was one for the annals of television. It’s a romance I really want to see developed further and her return would make for a fantastic plot twist. Their relationship completely carried the rest of the show and running the show without Anna Sawai as a main actor simply won't have the same vibe and feel to match the perfection of the first season.
Its interesting that Americans now think they need to involve producers and people very extensively from certain countries so that the culture, etc is captured reasonably accurately, and then there are plenty of countries where they would never even give that two seconds of thoughts, and assume they know and understand the culture....through mostly stereotypes. The latter seems to be especially true when its a culture Americans assume they know, either because it may be "closer" to theirs in some way, or due to perceived race/skin colour.
You need to talk more about Hiroyuki Sanada's contributions to Japanese culture. And since Sanada was a big star in Japanese period dramas, please take his opinion into consideration and don't go along with your American preconceptions. I want to see the real thing.
We Japanese people think, he basically lives in Los Angeles. He was a big star in Japan, but for the past 20 years he has not appeared in a single movie or drama in Japan, and instead has been working to ensure that Japanese Bushido and culture are portrayed correctly in America. He is fluent in English, so I hope he can tell us the behind-the-scenes stories. Thank you.@@agatazietek9098
Perhaps you don't know? Sanada was one of the producers, and he used his connections to bring in experts on Japanese period dramas, such as kimono dressing, manners, sword fighting, and art, from Japan to teach the Hollywood staff the correct knowledge. I think that kind of story is interesting. Sorry if you already know all of this.
😂Why Americans always pronounce japanese ancient vocabularies wrong ? 😂It’s not Shogan! It’s Shogoon. ok ? ✅Can you stop saying ShoGAN please😂. It’s ShoGoon. No need to alter the words ok? Don’t need to alter the holy bible words from hebrew words to the English words. It’s not Marco, her name is MaLeeko. Please 🙏 don’t pronounce japanese words so strange !🙏🥹 I have mastered to pronounciate English vocabulary words right way as English teacher forced me to say so. I expect the same from Americans also pronounce japanese vocabulary correctly. i greatly appreciate that. My brain 🧠 go crazy 😂when i hear the words ShoGAN instead of Shogoon.
They praised everyone except Cosmo Jarvis who was amazing. They also say something that’s really worrying for me. They said they were concerned about Blackthorne being seen as ‘appropriating’ seppuku. First of all, the idea that we should be concerned about ‘appropriation’ of suicide(?!?!?!) is insane. But there’s also a decidedly anti-immigrant on Justin’s statement. The idea that immigrants must tiptoe around cultures they are assimilating in to incase someone thinks they are ‘appropriating’. It’s this idea that no matter how much one tries the immigrant must always be under suspicion. Really concerns me. I just can’t help shake the feeling that if it were a Japanese character coming to England, that character would not be spoken about in that way. And I’m just concerned there’s a certain fetishisation of other cultures from him and it comes across as quite paternalising.
Ugh, "anti-immigrant" sounds like a huge stretch and a very dishonest way to interpret it. If anything, he's going out of his way to be respectful, maybe in a clumsy way, because a lot of Asian Americans online have called this show problematic and racist from the get-go. Now, whether you agree with him or with them is a separate issue.
Don’t agree at all. There are loads of shows that appropriate cultures by not engaging properly with the source. Movies where people dress up like a samurai and wield katanas but don’t really understand the cultural significance, nor do they care. He was saying with seppuku that blackthorne needed to do it with understanding of the how’s and whys, not just because he hated his life and saw Mariko do it. The act of seppuku in that final episode was a huge character moment and defined his characters evolution. It wasn’t a comment about immigration or tiptoeing around culture at all - more that seppuku needs to fitthe characters’ personal journey and character arc. Also, 100% the opposite happens. Just watch any Japanese drama to see loads of stereotypes about western culture when Japanese people visit the west.
@@jenkins5265 Yes, if you’re a nativist who think races inherit culture through the blood line, I can understand that perspective. Otherwise, I can’t see how someone can end up in that mindset. No one owns the idea of a samurai or any other idea. Culture is everybody’s inheritance and can be used with a deep understanding or it can be used purely for aesthetics. Now how one enjoys that is entirely down to them. But this moralistic nonsense on the basis of what is, again, an inherently nativist perspective, is baffling.
Did it seem like he's silenced his wife a lot and then maybe just maybe she could have had more insight in certain quadrants Jesus Christ interviews are getting weird
If you had 2 hearts then you aren't really a devout Christian. Devout Christians in Japan at that time willingly died instead of break their faith. Hosokawa Gracia, Mariko's real life counterpart, was very devout.
"There are a lot of great characters though" .... sorry sir it might have a lot of good character indeed but theres only one great,which is her. so yeah...there was an big empty in the end since de greatest died. just face it.
Why they killed off characters? Simple, because they died in the book. I really hope they leave Shogun alone now. They did a pretty good job at adapting the novel. I personally think the weakest parts of the show were those that deviated from the book, and that's why an entire season of trying to work without source material may end up weak.
They killed 2 characters in the miniseries that lived in the book. Hiramutso made sense. Having his son die, doesn't. Also, a fan favorite is allowed to become a Shinto nun in the TV series, but in the book, she is allowed to kill herself.
for a season 2 they can follow real life history which toranaga(tokugawa) now shogun lays seige to osaka and Ochiba and her son kill themselves the entire season can lead up to that and what happens in-between just a matter of getting good writers that know there stuff there's substance for a season 2 it just needs time to be done right idk what the hell they would do for more seasons if they choose to do more after a season 2 tho
There's an OCD level of respect for the japanese culture while you just paint brushed the portuguese into a catholic monolith. The supposed hate towards the english is a GIANT historical error. In the entire first season there's more spanish spoken than portuguese. A huge disrespect in my opinion. Please change for an eventual second season.
> brushed the portuguese into a catholic monolith. Because that's exactly what their presence in Japan was at the time - agents of the church/crown under the guise of spreading the faith but ultimately as colonists.
Hopefully this time they will try to stick to real history instead of 99 percent fictional BS. And please no more feminist propaganda and show a more realistic portrayal of Japan at that time.
Tadanobu Osano deserves that Emmy's Outstanding Supporting Actor. His scenes are just perfectly executed. Always a delight to see him.
The name is Tadanobu Asano
Great interview. Nice to know that if they or FX doesn't feel good about the follow-up, they won't proceed! The shows was TOO GOOD for it to have a horrible S2.
As much as I loved S1. I say, leave on a High-note. I'd be astonished if they can go even higher for S2.
@@sharoni1218either way i think it’ll be extremely hard for them f up s2 - its so grand and there’s so much history to tell.
I think we are losing a great deal of very good if not excellent TV thinking that subsequent seasons or spin offs must be better than the first so we get horrible cancellations & disappointments when studios suddenly drop a perfectly good series.
In this case Shogun can easily stand alone so isn't the best example but so often certain studios just drop a work after an 8 episode season, gone are years of really good TV entertainment with 15 or more episodes & while I understand some reasons, too often it's just arbitrary. Some major person just wants to do other work, or salaries skyrocket, worst is wanting a guarantee of "better". I'm not saying I would be happy with bad writing or production but costumes & locations can be reused, production can be very good without aiming to be better every season; a balance must be struck between just dropping great vehicles willy nilly & expecting greater results every year.
Longer running shows obviously will have ups & downs but i would rather deal with that than to leave good properties hanging & producing only to shorter & shorter seasons & runs.
The result is less and less viewer loyalty to both the shows & their managers, and decreasing interest over all which long term will damage TV as a great entertainment medium in a time when movies too are becoming less important. I don't mean art, and production doesn't matter, I just think it's been too easily discarded in the last several years.
Again, I'm ranting about TV in general. Shogun is excellent & it can be ended here without ruining it, but I would like to se the subsequent history, the establishment of the Edo era & the Tokagawa Shogunate. We have too little of that type of show but it doesn't have to be better, just not slaughtered for costs or given over to bad writing. I hope there's a way!
Considering how badly I didn’t want the story of Shogun to continue (since the book ends where Season One ends), the fact that this interview got me so HYPED for more story says a lot about how much I LOVED what these showrunners had to say, and how confident I feel about their abilities to continue it.
This is the most gratifying comment to read! Thanks for watching.
@@KateAurthur callbacks are not what i want. foreshadow and episode long flashback already set the bar in 2017-18.
I keep reading these kind of comments. These two produced something absolutely amazing. Why the fing flip do u not want a second season? They'll obviously do right by the show. They're not gonna make something dumb after winning 18 emmys. Why would u short slightly assume season 2 would suck?
Hiroyuki Sanada nailed it
With all of the streaming services trying to make “the next Game of Thrones”, I feel this series production value and excellence in characters, writing, QUALITY has been the closest to level of transporting people in an EPIC way. I am of the generation that was goo goo ga ga over Richard Chamberlain and the mini series at the time. As a junior in High School I read Shogun and started thinking in Japanese. I have read the book at least 4 times. VERY excited about getting to revisit so many of the beloved characters and first rate story telling. Thank you so much!
I too was over the moon about Richard Chamberlain! The Thornbirds!
Amazing interview. I'm convinced only Justin and Rachel, working with FX, were the only ones who could have made this show as good as it was. This team gives me full confidence that a season 2 and potentially more could be as good as the first, or nearly so, since they have a through-line defined by history, and such an amazing team of writers, historians and creatives bridging both cultures. The love and care for its execution is paramount, and serves as a guide for how both book adaptations and historical fiction should be treated. It's nothing short of astonishing really.
I'm excited for it. Because knowing that season 2 & 3 is based off the true history of the characters will be so exciting to learn.
I just finished watching Shogun. What a fantastic show! I became a fan of Justin Marks when I saw Counterpart a few years back. I was so disappointed when that show was not renewed for a third season. Justin and all others involved in that project created an incredible world and I was sad not to be able to see the whole arc of that story. That is why I’m incredibly happy that Shogun has been such an incredible success and that Justin and his collaborators will be able to bring us an extended story and experience over multiple seasons. Fingers crossed as I look forward to the next season!!
Anna Sawai has come a long way since her J-Pop days. I can't wait to see where she goes from here. It's only been like, 5 years since she shifted her focus from singing to pursuing acting seriously, and her career is really starting to take off.
I first saw her in Monarch on Apple TV and I was like 'Okay not bad" But then Shogun came out and I could really tell that she was being held back with that writing in that last show, because MY GOD she made Shogun be as great as it did. Emmy worthy!
Will Adams spent the rest of his life in Japan as envoy and mercantile agent for the Shogun. He married a Japanese lady and raised a family. His history is quite well documented and he is still celebrated annually in Japan. Can't wait to see a second series.
This! I was at first concerned with them adding a second and third season considering the began and finished the first season so well. I was worried they'd have the GOT issue of not having source material, but that can lean on history! That is reassuring to me that they'll have a lot of inspiration to tell more stories with these characters. That said, they set the tone so high with the first season that they have to really knock it out the park to hopefully capture the same magic.
yes but he was very much the main character of that story even in reality. the dude altered the history of the world. I'm not sure they could pivot into that after making him a buffoon in this series (technical term for comedic character of this type).
Why would they care about real history when almost everything in the first season was made up fantasy?
Too bad they had to deviate so badly from history to slander Hosokawa Gracia and Hosokawa Tadaoki in the first season. Just to make up a ridiculous romance of people that never even met and make a superhero out of a woman who never even left her mansion in Osaka. Lol
@@joeyartk It isn't a documentary. It is an historical drama. In addition, why are you attacking them? They adapted a novel, so take it up with James Clavell although he is dead. Did you even watch the video? How did he slander Hosokawa Gracia or Hosokawa Tadaoki? Clavell changed the names of all the main historical figures preciously so that people don't confuse his fictionalized characters with the actual historical people. In addition, Mariko and Blackthorn are praiseworthy and likable protagonists in the novel and the two adaptions. Moreover, in Japan Hosokawa Gracia has been depicted in Japanese literature, stage drama, movie and TV dramas, anime, and videos games from 1887 onward. Where are you complaints here? It is clear no actually do not know the history.
Cautious but very optimistic 🤞🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This show was phenomenal, i loved every second of it. It makes me really happy that a 2nd season is coming but also a bit frustrated to wait for it. What a great show! It's been a while since i've been this excited.
I would like to have heard more from Rachel Kondo--Marks really spoke 75 percent of the time, but I'm sure Kondo's input was vital. I would have liked to have heard more of her perspective.
Showrunners !! Very cool! I started getting interested in showrunners with Noah Hawley, following him from Fargo to Legion (should have been a big hit, very cool show), etc
I interviewed him for this series too - stay tuned!
As long as Fuji is in Season 2
I have a full-on crush on Fuji. I am hoping she becomes Blackthorne's wife, as the character he is based on did marry a Japanese woman and raised a family there.
No. Let Fuji have her happy ending. If they bring her back I'm scared they'll just kill her off 😂
Wouldn’t make any sense. We already know she left to be a nun.
彼女が尼になったら、我々は髪を剃り上げた藤様を目にすることになる。
@@AugustSeria She is the granddaughter of Hiromatsu. You know that "genius" skips a generation.
It will be really interesting to find that not only is she a brave Onna-musha but also a proper descendant of her grandfather as a skillfully mastermind.
Being a nun it's not a "happy ending" to someone with so many connections and prospects on Japanese society of the time. Specially a woman that had it twice as hard (at least).
Adams (real life Blackthorne) loved Japanese culture. And sided with the Japanese side practically from the day 0. Really important because he was pivotal on establishing relationship with Dutch traders (which contributed to take out power from the Christian Daimios).
Blackthorne is different in this regard. It will be interesting to see why he chooses to stay in Japan (because if they follow the real life Adams he will have plenty of opportunities to return to England in the future) and why he will choose to side with Japanese interests when he establishes relationship with the Dutch merchants (at first the Dutch thought that Adams "was his man in Japan". But soon enough they learned that the situation was much more complicated).
What an accomplishment! I've just finished watching the whole 1st season and MAN! it was such a treat. I can't wait for the 2nd season.
One of my favorite books. Also a fantastic series. Gai-jin, whirl wind, and King Rat, great reads.
Congratulations, guys! ❤
Fantastic interview!
Watching this show I could feel the love and dedication poured into it from every facet. It's great to see great television with amazing characters come to life. Can't wait for the second season.
Shogun and Blue Eye Samurai were the best new shows in the last 5 years and they both need a season two
Blue eye gonna make season two. Shogun seasons 2 confirmed. Rumors have it up ti season 3 as well
Please PLEASE do a prequel of Mariko's youth and the assassination of the Taiko!
待ち望んだインタビューです。お二人のプロデューサーの真摯な話が聞けてシーズン２への期待が増すばかりです。
わずか６時間で終わったという関ヶ原の戦いと違い、大阪の陣は２期に渡る大規模な攻城戦である。フォトジェニックな真田丸の奮闘もある。私はその大スペクタクルを如何に描かずに物語を収束させるかで頭を悩ませている。淀殿（落葉の方）と秀頼は秘密裏に逃げ延びたという俗説もある。この母子が庶民に愛されていた所以でもあるが、関ヶ原で石田三成（石堂和成）が埋められてじっくり首を斬られたという話には尾ひれは無い。まさに犬も食わない話。
Very humble and open interview from the showrunners. Super excited for season 2!
The natural end is the Siege of Osaka Castle in 1615. Tokugawa Ieyasu died shortly after. William Adams would live for five more years, dying in 1620 leaving behind his Japanese wife, a son, and a daughter.
The real life people were just an outline for fictional characters.
But it makes sense...with Toranaga gone, Blackthorns protection is gone.
I think they should take another Caville book & produce it.
I keep going on Shogun threads promoting the idea of a prequel revolving around Yabushige and Ishido’s time in Korea, but if I am reading this interview correctly, and the Battle of Sekigahara IS something on the table that they will work up toward, and the natural conclusion (historically should be the Siege of Osaka Castle) if so, they could TOTALLY have an episode or two with flashbacks of Hideyoshi’s (Taiko) unsuccessful endeavor’s (thru Korea) to topple Ming China.
At least that way we can get more Yabushige. Heck!! throw in some flashback episodes of Mariko and the Monk. Hey, let’s not stop there, let’s also get an episode that shows what happened in Macau.
Finally, this is most important probably for Season 3. Choose who plays Sanada Yukimura very carefully. In the Siege of Osaka, Iyeyasu (Toranaga) was the one doing the sieging, yet due to Yukimura’s heroics, he had to seriously consider seppuku as capture seemed imminent. Who the hell can play this role…..? They will need to find another unicorn like they did with Anna Sawai. If that is even possible, otherwise we’ll just have to hire Dwayne Johnson😂
I'd like to see how the shogun closes Japan, how samurai fall into decay to become ronins, maybe some history into the other 2 previous shogun. How eso flourish and how the heir lost his right for the throne.
It is hard to picture Shogun going forward without Anna Sawai, it is perfect as it is and I fear another season could "stain" it. 🤷♂
Maybe some flashbacks with Anna Sawai (Maroki) in the beginning of season 2?
Such an amazing accomplishment. Many of us were absolutely mesmerized by the show and felt real melancholy over its end. Hoping their plans for future seasons come to fruition!
Usually when creators go off script from the source material, 99.99% of the time, it is worse.
The series ended when the book ended. Where is the story going to go?
If i'm remembering that part of history correctly then arn't we getting a chance to see the Buddhist ninjas more?
they need to introduce some key japanese historical figures.
Honestly, why? I think this really completed the series, it doesn't need to go any further. It was amazing for what it was, a solid 8/10 for me and honestly a must watch for a lot of people. But I think it's one of those things that you need to let it pass, otherwise it will quickly become simplistic and too familiar to the audience to capture that 'another world' kind of vibe.
As much as I loved the show I'd prefer them to create something else, like in another interview Justin mentioned James Clavells book about Hong Kong. But I'm still going to watch it. Probably the next seasons were ordered by network because of the money and showrunners were proposed a pretty huge pay.
I don't care what anyone says. I have been waiting my entire life for a series covering Samurai history. This show did such an amazing job with the world building and characters that it seems like it would be such a waste to end it. Plus it delivered on everything except action and war. The series ending before it showed any type of war was extremely unsatisfying. I know that's not the point of the book but war was the Samurai's entire purpose for existing, and to not put that on display was extremely wasted potential.
Watched Shogun twice. Can’t wait for season 2.
Sooooo excited and ready for more SHOGUN I completely trust them to come up with something as amazing as S1 even without a book
Extending the story of Shogun beyond the original is a marvellous intention, there is no particular reason why this could not become a wider history of the feudal period in Japanese history. I hope Hiro will continue his marvellous work.
A prequel could see Anna back on the screen, too.
Don't leave a prequel too long...
Why would you not include Hiroyuki Sanada in this ... man was THE driving force behind everything
He might have been busy.
Maybe because most first impressions of him, based on his younger roles as a Ninja in the 80s, feels so wrong when he now takes a Samurai's role. You know, the old Ninja vs Samurai hype.
@@eelchiong6709this is such a cringe reply.
I'd be happy either way, if they decided to or not to make S2.
Yabu will be missed in s2!
Why was the original book not used to cover more then 1 season? It has enough in it to make several seasons from it alone.
Season 2 should be Blackthorne and Buntaro on a Bad Boys type adventure
Mariko was the heart and soul of the show though. Not Toranaga, not Blackthorne. The show will be an entirely new story with the same name.
Considering historical facts, in the next season, Buntaro will follow in his father Hiromatsu's footsteps and become Toranaga's right-hand man, and will go on a rampage at the Battle of Sekigahara, capturing Ishido and kill him by burying him in the ground. During that time, Blackthorn trains his marines in artillery and also falls in love with a female villager.
In the next season, Toranaga will attack Osaka Castle and kill Ochiha and his heir in order to create a peaceful era. Blackthorn cannons will be useful on that battlefield. Toranaga would then become a Shogun, and Blackthorn would be honored and swear lifelong loyalty to Toranaga. After all Catholics are expelled, Blackthorn will marry the villager woman and live happily ever after in Japan.
That's the synopsis of this history. I'd like to see how they adapt this to impress us.
You mix and awful lot of fiction in with your "historical facts" Lol.
My two favorite characters are gone, Mariko-sama and Fuji-sama. 😢
It’s not SHOGAN, it’s ShogUUn - this should be called more properly
Epic Fights Epic epic fights needed
No Mariko, no second season!!
If they are so intent on accurately portraying sepuku, why didn't they have Mariko try to cut the artery in her neck the way women were supposed to do it, not slit her abdomen. And they didn't need a second either.
I just finished the book...an hour ago.
Some of the changes from bookstore miniseries were understandable. Others were weird.
This was one of the weird changes.
secondを作るってことは、「これから面白いことを言います！」と言ってからギャグをするのと同じだよね。皆の期待値がすごいことになってるので、期待以上のことをしないとガッカリされるわけ。ちなみに日本でsecondが成功したと言われているのは、ターミネーターだけである。
Great show, but the fact that John Blackthorne's story arc became almost a part role compared to the book, was a real shame as he was the main character in the story (based on William Adams a real-life character) and his journey was incredible... The culture shock between Europeans and Japanese, with extra spice from the religious conflicts thrown in, was a big miss from the producers, those of you who have read the book will know what I mean
My impossible wish would be for them to go off script and bring Mariko back (by her not being dead and faking her death and burial).
She played her character so damn well and her chemistry with John was one for the annals of television. It’s a romance I really want to see developed further and her return would make for a fantastic plot twist.
Their relationship completely carried the rest of the show and running the show without Anna Sawai as a main actor simply won't have the same vibe and feel to match the perfection of the first season.
Its interesting that Americans now think they need to involve producers and people very extensively from certain countries so that the culture, etc is captured reasonably accurately, and then there are plenty of countries where they would never even give that two seconds of thoughts, and assume they know and understand the culture....through mostly stereotypes. The latter seems to be especially true when its a culture Americans assume they know, either because it may be "closer" to theirs in some way, or due to perceived race/skin colour.
Portugal! They keep rattling on about how important it was to be authentic. But then had the Portuguese speak English.
You need to talk more about Hiroyuki Sanada's contributions to Japanese culture.
And since Sanada was a big star in Japanese period dramas, please take his opinion into consideration and don't go along with your American preconceptions. I want to see the real thing.
Maybe he was busy though or wasn't paid enough to come to the US
We Japanese people think, he basically lives in Los Angeles.
He was a big star in Japan, but for the past 20 years he has not appeared in a single movie or drama in Japan, and instead has been working to ensure that Japanese Bushido and culture are portrayed correctly in America.
He is fluent in English, so I hope he can tell us the behind-the-scenes stories.
Thank you.@@agatazietek9098
Perhaps you don't know?
Sanada was one of the producers,
and he used his connections to bring in experts on Japanese period dramas, such as kimono dressing, manners, sword fighting, and art, from Japan to teach the Hollywood staff the correct knowledge.
I think that kind of story is interesting.
Sorry if you already know all of this.
@@ふわっとアニマルトリップ i know, but no need to apologise! I know about this since they mentioned it in companion podcast.
Show Gun 😂 show some respect by at least pronouncing the word correctly
I don’t see the point of watching without Mariko
First view. First comment. Yay.
Apparently americans can't pronunce Shogun properly they have to put a firearm in it ("gun").
😂Why Americans always pronounce japanese ancient vocabularies wrong ? 😂It’s not Shogan! It’s Shogoon. ok ? ✅Can you stop saying ShoGAN please😂. It’s ShoGoon. No need to alter the words ok? Don’t need to alter the holy bible words from hebrew words to the English words. It’s not Marco, her name is MaLeeko. Please 🙏 don’t pronounce japanese words so strange !🙏🥹 I have mastered to pronounciate English vocabulary words right way as English teacher forced me to say so. I expect the same from Americans also pronounce japanese vocabulary correctly. i greatly appreciate that. My brain 🧠 go crazy 😂when i hear the words ShoGAN instead of Shogoon.
They praised everyone except Cosmo Jarvis who was amazing.
They also say something that’s really worrying for me. They said they were concerned about Blackthorne being seen as ‘appropriating’ seppuku. First of all, the idea that we should be concerned about ‘appropriation’ of suicide(?!?!?!) is insane. But there’s also a decidedly anti-immigrant on Justin’s statement. The idea that immigrants must tiptoe around cultures they are assimilating in to incase someone thinks they are ‘appropriating’. It’s this idea that no matter how much one tries the immigrant must always be under suspicion. Really concerns me. I just can’t help shake the feeling that if it were a Japanese character coming to England, that character would not be spoken about in that way. And I’m just concerned there’s a certain fetishisation of other cultures from him and it comes across as quite paternalising.
Ugh, "anti-immigrant" sounds like a huge stretch and a very dishonest way to interpret it. If anything, he's going out of his way to be respectful, maybe in a clumsy way, because a lot of Asian Americans online have called this show problematic and racist from the get-go. Now, whether you agree with him or with them is a separate issue.
Don’t agree at all. There are loads of shows that appropriate cultures by not engaging properly with the source. Movies where people dress up like a samurai and wield katanas but don’t really understand the cultural significance, nor do they care. He was saying with seppuku that blackthorne needed to do it with understanding of the how’s and whys, not just because he hated his life and saw Mariko do it. The act of seppuku in that final episode was a huge character moment and defined his characters evolution. It wasn’t a comment about immigration or tiptoeing around culture at all - more that seppuku needs to fitthe characters’ personal journey and character arc. Also, 100% the opposite happens. Just watch any Japanese drama to see loads of stereotypes about western culture when Japanese people visit the west.
@@jenkins5265 Yes, if you’re a nativist who think races inherit culture through the blood line, I can understand that perspective. Otherwise, I can’t see how someone can end up in that mindset. No one owns the idea of a samurai or any other idea. Culture is everybody’s inheritance and can be used with a deep understanding or it can be used purely for aesthetics. Now how one enjoys that is entirely down to them. But this moralistic nonsense on the basis of what is, again, an inherently nativist perspective, is baffling.
Did it seem like he's silenced his wife a lot and then maybe just maybe she could have had more insight in certain quadrants Jesus Christ interviews are getting weird
the presenter's pronounciation of Shogun made me crunge everytime she said it😓
I feel the same. How hard it is to say 1 word correctly ☹️
oops, "cringe"
If you had 2 hearts then you aren't really a devout Christian. Devout Christians in Japan at that time willingly died instead of break their faith. Hosokawa Gracia, Mariko's real life counterpart, was very devout.
"There are a lot of great characters though" .... sorry sir it might have a lot of good character indeed but theres only one great,which is her. so yeah...there was an big empty in the end since de greatest died. just face it.
Why they killed off characters? Simple, because they died in the book. I really hope they leave Shogun alone now. They did a pretty good job at adapting the novel. I personally think the weakest parts of the show were those that deviated from the book, and that's why an entire season of trying to work without source material may end up weak.
Season 2 and 3 are coming booi. nothing you cant do about it
They killed 2 characters in the miniseries that lived in the book. Hiramutso made sense. Having his son die, doesn't.
Also, a fan favorite is allowed to become a Shinto nun in the TV series, but in the book, she is allowed to kill herself.
Nothing happens: The series
Lmao you got newt to no source material.
Don't make another GoT
for a season 2 they can follow real life history which toranaga(tokugawa) now shogun lays seige to osaka and Ochiba and her son kill themselves the entire season can lead up to that and what happens in-between just a matter of getting good writers that know there stuff there's substance for a season 2 it just needs time to be done right idk what the hell they would do for more seasons if they choose to do more after a season 2 tho
There's an OCD level of respect for the japanese culture while you just paint brushed the portuguese into a catholic monolith. The supposed hate towards the english is a GIANT historical error. In the entire first season there's more spanish spoken than portuguese. A huge disrespect in my opinion. Please change for an eventual second season.
I understand why you feel upset but I hope they're ( the Portuguese)fleshed out in the next season of the show.
> brushed the portuguese into a catholic monolith.
Because that's exactly what their presence in Japan was at the time - agents of the church/crown under the guise of spreading the faith but ultimately as colonists.
@@Random-Stranger but he's got a point about using Spanish expressions instead of Portuguese.
Brazilian Portuguese is the best anyways
Hopefully this time they will try to stick to real history instead of 99 percent fictional BS. And please no more feminist propaganda and show a more realistic portrayal of Japan at that time.