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

'Shōgun' star and producer Hiroyuki Sanada spoke with ET at an FYC event in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

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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