Lead Actor In A Drama Emmy Winner Hiroyuki Sanada Calls ‘Shōgun’ “An East-West Dream Project With Respect” Says “We Can Create A Better Future”
deadline.comHiroyuki Sanada has won his first Emmy. On Sunday he took home the award for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role in FX drama series Shōgun, on which he also serves as a producer. “It was an East-West dream project with respect,” he said while accepting the award, “and Shōgun taught me that when people work together we can make miracles.
We can create a better future together.” In the epic drama series from FX based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel, veteran Japanese actor Sanada stars as Lord Toranaga, the ultimate strategist, whose intricate web ultimately served to unify 17th century Japan.
Tadanobu Asano also stars as Lord Kashigi Yabushige, Anna Sawai as Toda Mariko and Cosmo Jarvis as shipwrecked Portuguese explorer John Blackthorne, known as ‘Anjin’.
Sanada was previously familiar with the character of Toranaga, since in 1989’s Oda Nobunaga, he had played Tokugawa Ieyasu, the real-life man who inspired the Toranaga character.
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