{"id":132808,"date":"2025-11-13T10:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132808\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:39:33","slug":"shogun-season-2-sets-new-and-returning-cast-writers-and-directors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132808\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shogun&#8217; Season 2 Sets New and Returning Cast, Writers and Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/shogun\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shogun\" data-tag=\"shogun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shogun<\/a>\u201d Season 2 has unveiled its writers, directors and new and returning cast members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNewcomers for Season 2 include Asami Mizukawa as Aya, Masataka Kubota as Hy\u016bga, Sho Kaneta as Hidenobu, Takaaki Enoki as Lord Ito and Jun Kunimura as G\u014dda. They join returning stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis, as well as Fumi Nikaid\u00f4, Shinnosuke Abe, Hiroto Kanai, Yoriko D\u00f4guchi, Tommy Bastow, Yuko Miyamoto, Eita Okuno and Yuka Kouri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSeason 1 directors Hiromi Kamata (Season 1, Episode 6 \u201cLadies of the Willow World\u201d) and Takeshi Fukunaga (Season 1, Episode 7, \u201cA Stick of Time\u201d) return to direct on the second season. Anthony Byrne, Kate Herron and series co-creator Justin Marks will also direct episodes in Season 2. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWriters on Season 2 include co-creator Rachel Kondo, Marks, Shannon Goss, Matt Lambert, Maegan Houang, Emily Yoshida, Caillin Puente and Sofie Somoroff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAccording to an official logline, \u201cShogun\u201d Season 2 \u201cis set ten years after the events of the first season and continues the historically-inspired saga of these two men from different worlds whose fates are inextricably entwined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cShogun,\u201d based on James Clavell\u2019s 1975 novel of the same name, was created for television by Kondo and Marks and is produced by FX Productions. The pair also serves as executive producers alongside Michaela Clavell, Edward L. McDonnell and Michael De Luca and Sanada. Jarvis is co-executive producer alongside Eriko Miyagawa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cShogun\u201d Season 1 broke the record for most Emmy Award wins by a series in a single season with 18 statuettes. Sanada became the first Japanese actor history to win the Emmy for best lead actor in a drama. Anna Sawai was also the first actress of Asian decent to win best lead actress in a drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShogun\u201d Season 2 has unveiled its writers, directors and new and returning cast members. Newcomers for Season 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,90889,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-132808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-shogun","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}