Hiroyuki Sanada returns as Yoshii Toranaga and as executive producer on Shogun Season 2, whose Vancouver shoot has wrapped and moved into post-production.
Hiroyuki Sanada stays on both sides of the camera for Shogun Season 2. He returns as Yoshii Toranaga, the role he played in the first season, and holds the executive producer title as well. Production on the season wrapped in Vancouver, Canada.
The end of filming was announced by co-creator Justin Marks on X, who wrote that nearly 200 days of shooting had finished. The shoot began in Vancouver in January. Sanada appears in the wrap video, shouting "Otsukaresama deshita!" as Japanese and American cast and staff celebrate on set.
The season runs 10 years after the first. Returning alongside Sanada are Cosmo Jarvis, Fumi Nikaido, and Shinnosuke Abe, with Ren Meguro, Asami Mizukawa, and Masataka Kubota among the new cast. A second report lists Meguro, Mizukawa, Kubota, Noboru Kaneda, Takaaki Enoki, and Jun Kunimura as new additions. The two accounts agree on the wrap and on Sanada's dual role; they differ only on how much of the new cast is named.
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Filming on Season 2 of the drama SHOGUN has ended in Vancouver, Canada. A special video shows Japanese and American cast and staff celebrating on set, opening with Hiroyuki Sanada shouting "Otsukaresama deshita!" Sanada returns as Yoshii Toranaga and executive producer. New cast include Ren Meguro, Asami Mizukawa, Masataka Kubota, Noboru Kaneda, Takaaki Enoki, and Jun Kunimura.
Filming on Shogun Season 2 has finished, co-creator Justin Marks announced on X. Marks wrote that nearly 200 days of shooting, which began in Vancouver in January, have ended. Hiroyuki Sanada returns as lead actor and executive producer, with Cosmo Jarvis, Fumi Nikaido, Shinnosuke Abe and others reprising roles. Ren Meguro, Asami Mizukawa and Masataka Kubota are among the new cast. Season 2 is set 10 years after the first.