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Shōgun’s Moeka Hoshi Knows the Power of Good Communication
“I see Fuji as a flexible person. Or, rather, she becomes as such.”
One of the show’s biggest pleasures is watching the Anjin slowly learn the language with the help of his love interest and translator Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai), who often slyly tweaks messages for both her own purposes and to avoid unnecessary conflict. In Shōgun, Hoshi plays Usami Fuji, a woman ordered by Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) to be the Anjin’s consort. Bound to the rigid honor codes and unwritten rules she’s adhered to her whole life, Fuji compartmentalizes her turmoil behind an internal “eightfold fence” — especially after losing both her son and her husband when the latter commits seppuku in the pilot after disrespecting the Council of Regents.
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