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Hiroyuki Sanada Becomes First Japanese Actor to Win Best Lead in a Drama Series for ‘Shogun’ (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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If you haven't seen Shogun yet, it's pretty good. Significantly less orientalist than the book and adds more depth to all of the characters, but especially Toranaga (the character played by OP) and the female characters like Mariko and Fuji. Great performances all around. Cool to see the award won by a Japanese actor, but specifically in the context of a show that takes place in Japan with characters speaking Japanese. Although an American production, it opens the doors to more foreign-language films to win similar awards like the South Korean film Parasite and the show Squid Game a few years ago.

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[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

It's a wonderful show and I highly recommend it.

Too bad they're trying to invent an unnecessary second season instead of filming the second book, Tai-Pan. It's about Western trading companies in Hong Kong at the beginning of China's so-called century of humiliation that followed the first opium war.