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Lead Actor In A Drama Emmy Winner Hiroyuki Sanada Calls ‘Shōgun’ “An East-West Dream Project With Respect” Says “We Can Create A Better Future”


Lead Actor In A Drama Emmy Winner Hiroyuki Sanada Calls 'Shōgun' "An East-West Dream Project"

Tadanobu Asano also stars as Lord Kashigi Yabushige, Anna Sawai as Toda Mariko and Cosmo Jarvis as shipwrecked Portuguese explorer John Blackthorne, known as ‘Anjin’. Acting since the age of six, when he began in commercials in Japan, Sanada is best known internationally for such films as The Last Samurai, Speed Racer and Bullet Train, along with the shows Lost and Westworld. Having starred in many Samurai films from his start in acting, Sanada said he had employed all the accrued knowledge in order to instruct the show’s team on cultural accuracy.

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