'Shogun' smashes Emmys record; Sanada, Sawai take acting honors

'Shogun' smashes Emmys record; Sanada, Sawai take acting honors

( "Shogun," the tale of warring dynasties in feudal Japan, ended the night with an astounding 18 statuettes, becoming the first ever non-English-language winner of the highly coveted award for best drama series.

The previous record for any season of a television show was 13.

"It was an East-meets-West dream project, with respect," said veteran leading man Hiroyuki Sanada, who became the first Japanese actor to win an Emmy.

Anna Sawai followed him onto the Emmys stage minutes later with a best actress win, before the cast and producers of "Shogun" returned for the overall best drama award. )

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Congratulations. Well deserved. :)

Now everyone in the world can see the quality of Japanese tv and especially drama shows. This will be great for Tokyowood. Expect more Japanese tv shows to dominate over the next few years.

Japantime

Now everyone in the world can see the quality of Japanese tv and especially drama shows. This will be great for Tokyowood. Expect more Japanese tv shows to dominate over the next few years.

This wasn't a Japanese TV show.

Well deserved to the actors and actresses and to the show in general. It was so well done and it stayed very close to the original novel by James Clavell.

Now everyone in the world can see the quality of Japanese tv and especially drama shows.

It was a US made tv shown by a Disney owned production company.

"Shogun' smashes Emmys record; Sanada, Sawai take acting honors."

Excellent!!

*Note: I love the beautiful Anna Sawai and her Emmy win was completely deserved, but I would have liked to have seen Fumi Nikaido on that stage too; the dynamics and complex relationship between Lady Mariko/Toda Mariko and Lady Ochiba/Ochiba no kata was one of the highlights of the series—they were both able to capture the complexity of their characters, dealing with many different feelings and emotions—they played their roles brilliantly.*

I have seen shogun for 4times and was totally overenthusiastic about it!

Rcch

thanks for cutting and pasting four grafs from the original story into your response. Very helpful.

*Note: I love the beautiful Anna Sawai and her Emmy win was completely deserved, but I would have liked to have seen Fumi Nikaido on that stage too; the dynamics and complex relationship between Lady Mariko/Toda Mariko and Lady Ochiba/Ochiba no kata was one of the highlights of the series—they were both able to capture the complexity of their characters, dealing with many different feelings and emotions—*they played their roles brilliantly.

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( (Not just Anna and Fumi—) The entire cast was brilliant—one of the reasons this is such an excellent series. )

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stickman1760, is there a problem? I want to make it clear what I’m referring to and this article will only be available for a limited time here on JT; I might want to take a quick look at it in the future via my account.

Actually, Shogun featured English, Japanese and Portuguese.

I feel Portuguese should have been used more. (In the series) that time it was basically the only European language able to be understood in Japan and had been in use for many decades before the English ever set foot there.

The number of loan words originating from Portuguese (still in use) shows that it had a strong influence too.

Japan time

Now everyone in the world can see the quality of Japanese tv and especially drama shows. This will be great for Tokyowood. Expect more Japanese tv shows to dominate over the next few years.

Are you trolling everybody here? Such a drama would have never been made in Japan, given the huge amount of red tape and corruption in the entertainment industry here. Fortunately Japan's movie associations had NOTHING to do with making this.

Kurisupisu

I feel Portuguese should have been used more

You should read the book. They followed it pretty closely, story wise. In the book they spoke Japanese, English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and Latin. The primordial third language (after Japanese and English) being Latin.

Japantime: "Now everyone in the world can see the quality of Japanese tv and especially drama shows."

Ummm... who's going to break it to him?

The show was in no way Japanese, and it is even based on a novel written by a Westerner. Now, it DOES showcase some serious Japanese talent, and thanks to Sonada it is very culturally sensitive, but again, not a Japanese show. So... I guess your comment is not only moot, it shows that the quality of Japanese dramas is not world-calibre at all. Oops.

@Japantime

Now everyone in the world can see the quality of Japanese tv and especially drama shows. 

Calling Shogun a Japanese TV shows is like calling Black Panther an African superhero movie.

Both are "ethnic-themed" American TV shows and movies.

If Anna Sawai was the best actress on television I made a great decision watching very little TV.

@deanzaZZR

If Anna Sawai was the best actress on television I made a great decision watching very little TV.

Anna Sawai is the best English speaking Japanese actress for sure, since there are only a handful of them in entirety of Japan. English speaking ability is what brought Watanabe Ken and and Hiroyuki Sanada to global fame, unlike Chinese and Korean actors many of whom speak English.

Being able to speak English doesn't make you a good actor/actress. How many emotions did she show across the 8 episodes? I count two, traditional Japanese female reserved face and I'm going to murder you face.

deanza - the vast majority disagrees with you.

Congratulations!

@ebisen Great. Please explain why her acting is Emmy worthy.