Quelle: deadline.com / cityonfire.comHiroyuki Sanada (Royal Warriors, Speed Racer) and Cosmo Jarvis (Lady Macbeth) play male leads, Yoshii Toranaga (originally played by Toshiro Mifune) and John Blackthorne (originally played by Richard Chamberlain), respectively. Anna Sawai (F9: The Fast Saga) takes on the role of Lady Mariko (originally portrayed by the late Yoko Shimada).
Shōgun also stars Tadanobu Asano (Kate), Yûki Kedôin (The Naked Director), Tommy Bastow (The Crossing), Hiromoto Ida (Tokyo Cowboy), Hiroto Kanai (Tuna Girl) and Emi Kamito (The Terror).
Written by Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, Shōgun is set in feudal Japan. It charts the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds and a mysterious female samurai: John Blackthorne (Jarvis), a risk-taking English pilot major who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga (Sanada), a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko (Sawai), a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties who must prove her value and allegiance .
