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Yuki Kura Is Proud to be Shōgun’s Failson
“He’s quite a fortunate, happy person, considering all the mistakes he made.”
It turns out “failson” is a concept that can apply beyond our current place and time, as Yuki Kura’s translator explains the idea — a scion of a great man who can never measure up to Daddy — and how it fits his character, Yoshii Nagakado. His rash decision to execute a samurai hastened the war between his father and the other regents, and then he died by slipping in a brothel’s onsen after trying to pull a Hamlet on his uncle (Eita Okuno). But his character’s ignoble end hasn’t fazed Kura, who is about as new to acting as Nagakado was to lording over people — Shōgun was his first international show and first shoot abroad — and says he couldn’t have had a better mentor than his onscreen father.
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