Sanada was featured as part of Variety's "Awards Circuit" podcast, where he was asked about the situation regarding Shogun ...

The latest episode picks up after the death of Lord Toranaga's (Hiroyuki ... he could save Toranaga's three generals (the ones who had been wearing armor at Nagakado's funural in an act of ...

Emmy-nommed "Shogun" star Hiroyuki Sanada on playing Lord Toranaga, season 2 and more. Also: The limited series acting races.

Lord Toranaga seeks to build his forces by striking an alliance with his long-lost half-brother. An unusually talky and relatively violence-free episode of Shogun demonstrates that this show can ...

“Shogun” tells the story of an English sailor, John Blackthorne, who lands in Japan and becomes embroiled in a deadly political conflict involving the shrewd Lord Toranaga and his ...

Cosmo Jarvis, left, and Nestor Carbonell in a scene from Shogun (Katie Yu/FX/PA) The two form an unlikely alliance as Lord Toranaga fends off his opponents who plot to overthrow him. Anna Sawai ...

Shogun has built up to the show's version of the Battle of Sekigahara since the first episode. Every careful twist, clever scheme, and tragic death guided the ensemble cast towards that legendary ...

"Shogun" steps away from the original Clavell text in many ways. Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo center the Japanese characters, including the fictional Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) as he ...

Hiromatsu: So sorry. It was my understanding that you were loyal to our lord. I don’t seek to be Shogun. Toranaga: I don’t seek to be Shogun. That title is a brutal relic. From a bygone era.

The lesson comes from the warrior Tokugama Ieyasu, who inspired Sanada’s character (Lord Yoshii Toranaga) in the FX series “Shogun.” Sanada explains how he applied that philosophy to life ...