American Shogun

Does Hollywood finally "get" Japan? Where will Season 2 of Shogun take us? And should we really be idolizing a warlord?

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the model for Shogun’s Toranaga Yoshii.

Shogun’s sweep of the Emmys feels like a Moment. I wrote about why the series resonates so deeply with American audiences for The New York Times (gift link!) TL;DR: because our socio-politically fractured era resembles a culture-war version of Japan’s Era of Warring States. Hiroyuki Sanada, who too…