The Surprising Lesson Shōgun Learned from Star Wars, Explained

FX's Shōgun made the brave and authentic decision to completely embrace its Japanese characters' perspectives. The new series gives these characters complete agency, unlike the 1980s Richard Chamberlain version which limited its story's scope to Blackthorne's narrative. One method the show's creators, Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, used to enforce this idea was to commit to its Japanese characters only speaking in Japanese, as they did in the book — and would in real life.