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Courtesy of FX<\/p>\n
The second chapter of “Sh\u014dgun’s”\u00a0epic story will feature some familiar faces.<\/p>\n
Season 2 of FX’s Emmy-winning samurai drama will begin production in Vancouver in January, the network announced on Wednesday \u2014 while also shedding light on which cast members will be returning for the new season. We already knew that Hiroyuki Sanada will reprise his Emmy-winning role as feudal Japanese ruler Lord Toranaga, along with Cosmo Jarvis as English sailor John Blackthorne. But now FX confirms that eight more Season 1 cast members will appear in Season 2 as well.<\/p>\n
The returning cast members are\u00a0Fumi Nikaid\u00f4 (as Lady Ochiba, the mother of the former sh\u014dgun’s only heir),\u00a0Shinnosuke Abe (as Mariko’s hot-headed husband Buntaro),\u00a0Hiroto Kanai (as Yabushige’s nephew Omi),\u00a0Yoriko D\u00f4guchi (as Toranaga’s wife Kiri),\u00a0Tommy Bastow (as Portuguese priest Alvito),\u00a0Yuko Miyamoto (as brothel proprietor Gin),\u00a0Eita Okuno (as Toranaga’s half-brother Saeki) and\u00a0Yuka Kouri (as prized courtesan Kiku).<\/p>\n
Several of Season 1’s key characters, however, like Anna Sawai’s Mariko and Tananobu Asano’s Yabushige, died last season, so they won’t appear in Season 2.<\/p>\n
“Sh\u014dgun”\u00a0has also added five cast members for Season 2: Asami Kizukawa as Aya; Masataka Kubota as Hy\u016bga; Sho Kaneta as Hidenobu; Takaaki Enoki as Lord Ito and Jun Kunimura as G\u014dda. Season 2 “is set ten years after the events of the first season,”\u00a0per the official synopsis,\u00a0“and continues the historically-inspired saga of these two men from different worlds whose fates are inextricably entwined.”<\/p>\n
An adaptation of James Clavell’s bestselling novel that also inspired a hit 1980 miniseries, “Sh\u014dgun” was originally billed as a limited series when it debuted last year, but FX later announced it was developing two additional seasons of the sweeping samurai epic, allowing it to compete in the drama series categories at the Emmys. The move paid off: “Sh\u014dgun” took home a record 18 Emmys, including wins for best drama series, best lead actor for Sanada and best lead actress for Sawai.<\/p>\n
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