The victory lap for Japanese display legend and FX hit Shogun star Hiroyuki Sanada continues. Poland’s pioneering EnergaCamerimage Worldwide Movie Competition, which focuses foremost on excellence in cinematography, mentioned Thursday that Sanada will obtain an award for greatest TV sequence efficiency on the occasion’s upcoming thirty second version in Toruń.
Sanada’s honor would be the first time the pageant awards an actor for a efficiency on the small display, one other growth of the celebrated pageant’s ambit.
Moderately just like the regal Lord Toranaga he performs on FX’s hit present, Sanda is at the moment in energetic marketing campaign mode as Shogun prepares to compete on the upcoming 2024 Emmys in additional classes than every other drama. Sanada is personally nominated each for the very best actor in a drama class and as a producer for the present because it competes within the excellent drama sequence race.
However whereas Shogun‘s big success — it was not too long ago renewed for 2 extra seasons — has introduced Sanada an entire new degree of worldwide recognition, he has been a display icon at residence in Japan for many years. The actor famously appeared in his first film at age 5 and he has acted in over 50 Japanese options since, together with Yoji Yamada’s 2002 Oscar nominee The Twilight Samurai. Uncommon amongst Japanese stars of his era, Sanada additionally crossed over to the best ranges of Hollywood years in the past. He was not too long ago seen in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023), with Keanu Reeves and Donnie Yen, and Bullet Prepare (2022), reverse Brad Pitt. Different U.S. movie credit embrace The Final Samurai (2003), The Wolverine (2013), 47 Ronin (2013), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Minions (2015) and Mortal Kombat (2021).
“Hiroyuki Sanada is a real ambassador of the cinematic arts, and his influence on each Japanese and world cinema is invaluable,” mentioned Marek Żydowicz, EnergaCamerimage’s director. “It’s an honor for us to have the ability to acknowledge such an impressive artist.”
Two-time Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett will function the jury president for the principle competitors at EnergaCAMERIMAGE this yr. The pageant runs Nov. 16-23 in Torun, Poland.