Hiroyuki Sanada as Toranaga looking resolute and Anna Sawai as Mariko preparing to sacrifice herself in Shogun Interview header
Summary As development on the next two seasons of the show gets underway, Shogun is celebrating a new milestone of success with 25 Emmy nominations. Serving as the second adaptation of James Clavell's novel of the same name, the show is set in 1600s Japan and explores the life of John Blackthorne, a Protestant English pilot who is marooned in the country during a turbulent era of multiple lords vying for ultimate power.
In honor of the show's Emmy nominations, Screen Rant interviewed editors Maria Gonzales and Aika Miyake to discuss Shogun season 1, their feelings on the awards recognition, capturing the Japanese authenticity of the story, how the ending was nearly different, and putting together some of the season's most iconic deaths.
Crafting A Translator Character Was "Really Meaningful" For Miyake One of the biggest and most emotional arcs of Shogun season 1 is that of Mariko serving as the translator for Blackthorne to the world of Japanese culture and customs, all while grappling with Toranaga's plans and her desire to redeem her family name.
Aika Miyake: Yeah, so that scene was edited by Thomas Krueger originally, and I was added as an additional editor at the end of the process to actually fine tune that last scene. It was a lot longer before, but Justin, the showrunner, he really wanted to make it super abrupt. It's really hard, actually, to cut something that feels abrupt. I did have shots that the director, Frederick Toye, shot, like an amazing shot of her.
Aika Miyake: Yeah, so Maria, in her editors' cut, she put the smile before Yabushige killed himself, before Toranaga cut his head off. He turned to Toranaga, and he smiled, and that moment was in Maria's cut earlier, but then, along the process, we tried losing it, tried to make the cut shorter. In the process, we lost it somewhere.
And then, when we go to episode 10, in Yabushige's final moments, Toranaga basically brings that line up back to Yabushige, and Yabushige says, "I would just really love to see or know what's happening in the future." And Toranaga basically says, "Why tell a dead man his future?" Which I think kind of goes along the lines of, "Dude, I played you all along. I knew everything that was happening, even in the alleys of some tiny village of Ajiro.
Maria Gonzales: You know, a lot of the crazy action that happened was just happening in bursts. Like, I had something in episode 4, I had something in episode 7. In episode 4, when Nagakado kills Jozen in the battlefield, or in episode 7, when Nagakado attempts to kill his uncle, but ends up dying himself. It's just very quick and just sudden action.
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