Hiroyuki Sanada on Idea of Filming ‘Shogun’ Season 2 in Japan

[This story contains spoilers for season one of Shōgun.]

Hiroyuki Sanada, star and producer of Shōgun, is teasing a bit in regards to the hit present’s second season.

The actor was requested at The Hollywood Reporter and SAG-AFTRA’s star-studded Emmy Nominees Night time occasion on Friday if the upcoming season might probably be filmed in Japan. Season one was filmed in Canada as a result of COVID-19.

“We’re discovering the probabilities, after all,” he revealed. “Not every little thing however perhaps a part of [the show].”

In an interview with THR final month, Sanada mentioned Vancouver was a “good location for Shōgun” because it’s a convincing stand-in for pre-modern Japan.

“They’ve a giant studio, and a 20-minute drive from the studio they’ve a forest, river, harbor, every little thing, with none trendy buildings or wires or cables,” the actor added on the time. “In Japan, it’s so exhausting to seek out that. Fashionable issues are all over the place.”

In Might, FX and Hulu introduced that they have been creating two extra seasons of the breakout drama, primarily based on writer James Clavell’s 1975 novel of the identical identify. Shōgun later scored 25 Emmy nominations, together with greatest drama collection, main the pack for this yr’s awards ceremony on Sunday. Sanada additionally earned a greatest dramatic actor nod for his position as Lord Yoshii Toranaga.

At Friday’s occasion, Sanada was additionally requested if audiences might nonetheless count on to see Anna Sawai reprise her position as Toda Mariko within the upcoming season, as her character sacrificed her life for Lord Yoshii Toranaga in Shōgun’s ninth episode, “Crimson Sky.” When THR pitched the thought of Sawai returning as a ghost or in a flashback, Sanada quipped, “Or twins?”

“I don’t know,” the actor admitted. “Solely she might do this position so nobody can do this like that. I’m so happy with her after which hopefully we are able to work collectively once more however who is aware of.”

Tiffany Taylor contributed to this story.