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Forget ‘Game Of Thrones’: FX’s ‘Shōgun’ Director Compares U.S.-Japanese Epic To A Different HBO Hit
'Shōgun' Director Jonathan van Tulleken has talkled 'Game Of Thrones', 'Succession' & the western gaze
While van Tulleken acknowledged the adaptation of James Clavell’s 1975 tome is “an epic, a spectacle,” he told the BBC this morning that a better comparison would be another HBO series, Succession, along with Netflix’s House of Cards. Producer Hiroyuki Sanada stars as Lord Yoshii Toranaga who is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him. Van Tulleken said FX’s version, which is a Japanese co-production, has been laser focused on avoiding the western gaze.
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