With just one season, shogun took home 18 Primetime Emmy Awards. That alone is reason to hope for a second season, but the FX (Disney+) series led by Hiroyuki Sanada (Sanada Hiroyuki) was a true gift for lovers of feudal Japan and its intrigues.
Based on the novel by James Clavelwhich was adapted for television in 1980, shogun This takes us to the period of the Ruling Council, prior to the rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate. However, the series (and the novel) brings us closer to these events through a fictional version of Tokugawa Ieyasu (Ieyasu Tokugawa), Yoshii Toranaga (Toranaga Yoshii).
Before Toranaga they carry John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), an English navigator whose ship calls in Japan and proves his worth to the feudal lord by sharing Western strategies and technology with him. All this time Board of Regents he joins forces to erase Toranaga from the map.
After the great success of the 1st season of shogun FX was quick to renew the series for two more seasons, but has been slow to shape the second, which is always a good sign despite the difficult wait.
shogun is ready to film its 2nd season
As stated deadlineDisney presented the 2nd season of Shogun as star content for its advertisements at Walt Disney Company Asia. The series will begin filming its new episodes in January 2026, so May not come to Disney+ until 2027.
New additions to the cast were also announced: Asami Kizukawa like Aya, Masataka Kubota like Hyūga, Sho Kaneta like Hidenobu, Takaaki Enoki as sir ito and Jun Kunimura like Goda.
Joining the returning cast: Fumi Nikaido like Ochiba, Shinnosuke Abe like Buntaro, Hiroto Kanai like Omi, Yoriko Doguchi like Kiri, Tommy Bastow like Alvito, Yuko Miyamoto like Gin, Okuno like Saeki and Yuka Kouri like Kiku.
2nd season of shogun will take place ten years after the events of the first, and will be written by Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks, Shannon Goss, Matt Lambert, Maegan Houang, Emily Yoshida, Caillin Puente and Sofie Somoroff.
They will return as directors after serving in the first season Hiromi Kamata and Takeshi Fukunagato which are added the new additions: Anthony Byrne, Kate Herron and Justin Markswho will combine his work as a screenwriter with the director’s chair.
We look forward to seeing how the team Shogun expands the imagination of James Clavell’s novel beyond what the book tells us. Filming for the new episodes is coming up and we may have more details soon.
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