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Hiroyuki Sanada Gives Updates on 'Shōgun' Season 2 and 'Mortal Kombat 2' (Exclusive)

'Shōgun' star and producer Hiroyuki Sanada speaks with ET at a special screening for the show.

For Hiroyuki Sanada, getting to work on Shōgun, both as a star and a producer, made the project even more personal -- and gave him a chance to help guide the show as it moves into uncharted territory. In Shōgun, Sanada stars as the powerful Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) in 1600 Japan, who is contending with a slew of political rivals and warlords before he crosses paths with English maritime pilot and soldier John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), and Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai), a loyal subject to Toranaga who serves as a translator between him and Blackthorne. In the 2021 take on the iconic and famously violent video game, Sanada starred as Scorpion -- and he's back this time for more of the titular deadly battles.

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