{"id":107847,"date":"2025-11-13T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=107847"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:11:33","slug":"fxs-global-hit-drama-series-shogun-sets-new-and-returning-cast-directors-and-writers-for-season-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/13\/fxs-global-hit-drama-series-shogun-sets-new-and-returning-cast-directors-and-writers-for-season-two\/","title":{"rendered":"FX&#8217;s Global Hit Drama Series &#8220;Shogun&#8221; Sets New and Returning Cast, Directors, and Writers for Season Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99263\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/126308-shogun.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/126308-shogun.webp 720w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/126308-shogun-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>The global hit drama series FX&#8217;s<em><strong> Shogun<\/strong> <\/em>today announced the new and returning cast joining the series for the second season as well as the directors and writers lined up for the next chapter of the Emmy\u00ae Award-winning show, which is set over a decade after the events of the first season. Season two will stream on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally and air on the FX channel.<\/p>\n<p>With season two set to begin production in Vancouver in January, the cast, directors, and writers were announced as part of The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific Disney+ Originals Preview currently underway in Hong Kong.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1485611303\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Newly added to the cast include Asami Kizukawa (&#8220;Aya&#8221;), Masataka Kubota (&#8220;Hyuga&#8221;), Sho Kaneta (&#8220;Hidenobu&#8221;), Takaaki Enoki (&#8220;Lord Ito&#8221;), and Jun Kunimura (&#8220;Goda&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Emmy\u00ae Award Winner Hiroyuki Sanada (&#8220;Toranaga&#8221;) and Cosmo Jarvis (&#8220;Blackthorne&#8221;) lead the stellar cast of returning stars, including Fumi Nikaid\u00f4 (&#8220;Ochiba&#8221;), Shinnosuke Abe (&#8220;Buntaro&#8221;), Hiroto Kanai (&#8220;Omi&#8221;), Yoriko D\u00f4guchi (&#8220;Kiri&#8221;), Tommy Bastow (&#8220;Alvito&#8221;), Yuko Miyamoto (&#8220;Gin&#8221;), Eita Okuno (&#8220;Saeki&#8221;), and Yuka Kouri (&#8220;Kiku&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Two directors from the award-winning first season of <em>Shogun<\/em> &#8211; Hiromi Kamata (Season 1, Episode 6 &#8220;Ladies of the Willow World&#8221;) and Takeshi Fukunaga (Season 1, Episode 7, &#8220;A Stick of Time&#8221;) &#8211; are set to direct on season two, with Anthony Byrne (FX&#8217;s Say Nothing), Kate Herron (Loki) and Justin Marks also set to direct episodes.<\/p>\n<p>The writers on season two of <em>Shogun<\/em> are Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks, Shannon Goss, Matt Lambert, Maegan Houang, Emily Yoshida, Caillin Puente, and Sofie Somoroff.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2737737044\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the first season, Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Sanada) fought for his survival as his enemies in the Council of Regents united against him. When a mysterious European ship was found marooned in a nearby village, its English pilot John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) shared vital strategic secrets with Toranaga that tipped the scales of power in his favor to win a century-defining civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Part two of <em>Shogun<\/em> is set ten years after the events of the first season and continues the historically-inspired saga of these two men from different worlds whose fates are inextricably entwined.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shogun<\/em>, an original adaptation of James Clavell&#8217;s bestselling novel, is created for television by Rachel Kondo &amp; Justin Marks and produced by FX Productions. Marks and Kondo are Executive Producers alongside Michaela Clavell, Edward L. McDonnell, and Michael De Luca, and Hiroyuki Sanada. Cosmo Jarvis serves as Co-Executive Producer along with Eriko Miyagawa. The series is produced by FX Productions.<\/p>\n<p>The first season of <em>Shogun<\/em> won 18 Emmy\u00ae Awards, setting the record for the most Emmy Awards by a series in a single season. It was FX&#8217;s first series to win Outstanding Drama Series. Hiroyuki Sanada became the first Japanese actor to win the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Anna Sawai made history as the first actress of Asian descent to win Lead Actress in the same category. 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