#shogun 2024

[redsamuraiii]

Moeka Hoshi (Fuji) last day on set with the crew.

"Hugging with Fred while crying. Bowing to Justin while crying. Talking with Cosmo while crying. I'm a crybaby as you know😂."

She's so pure! 😭Best Nun Girl ! 🥰

#shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun fx #moeka hoshi #usami fuji #period drama #jidaigeki #japan

[lafiametta]

Like many Shōgun viewers, I wondered about Blackthorne's action in Episode 9, when he draws a line in the sand of the garden, marring its perfectly cultivated harmony. Was he taking some stand against Japan and its culture of socially-permissible suicide? Was he silently protesting against the action Mariko was about to undertake?

gif by @yocalio

If we go back to the first episode, though, we realize that this is not the first time that Blackthorne has encountered someone who wishes to take their own life. His Dutch captain, clearly suffering under the effects of scurvy and the futility of remaining at sea for months with dwindling supplies, tells Blackthorne that he no longer holds out any hope of reaching Japan, much less returning to Europe a rich man. Then he glances down at Blackthorne's pistol.

“At my age,” he says, “you draw your line.���

(Like he does with Mariko, Blackthorne argues with the captain, telling him that suicide would be the act of a coward. Interestingly enough, the captain's words — “Pilot, there's nothing to fear. It's a blessed release. It's like only a soft wind in your face. Can you feel it? That is the breath of the Almighty. He's calling us. Listen. He's calling us home” — seem to do as little to convince Blackthorne as Mariko's rationale does. Still, he leaves the captain with his pistol.)

What if Blackthorne's act is not meant as an act of protest, but as a way to honor the sacrifice that Mariko is about to make, even if he vehemently disagrees with her choice? (He honors it even more when he volunteers to serve as her second, an act of love and duty that he agrees to perform even if it will destroy him to do so.) Ever since he came to understand her desire to die, he has argued with her, rejecting what he sees as her fatalism. Even her continued loyalty to Toranaga is branded as “senseless,” as he sees it as leading to her death. But by Episode 9, he has realized that he will never convince her, and perhaps — despite his anguished plea that she consider living, if only for him — he finally sees the purpose of her action and accepts her choice.

That is why he makes the mark in the garden. It is her, standing against her enemies, fulfilling her purpose.

And in the end, he understands: she must draw her line.

#shōgun #shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun fx #fx shogun #1x09 #john blackthorne #toda mariko #meta

[femininemenon]

SHŌGUN — 1x10: “A Dream of a Dream” (2024)

#shogun #shogunedit #perioddramaedit #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #shōgun #mariko x ochiba #ochiba x mariko #anna sawai #gifs #byzil #usersugar #usersavana #tusertyler #perioddramasource #weloveperioddrama #onlyperioddramas #shogun spoilers

[signalburst]

Shōgun writers on Blackthorne's journey, A Dream of a Dream's theme of letting go

Emily Yoshida (writer): "Blackthorne's fate is so interesting, and totally unexpected. People are going to see in it what they wanna see, because there's a lot of ways you can read it. It could be somehow worse than death, like a purgatory of some sort. And then there's a way in which you can read it as a life of devotion to something beyond him, which has been something that has been a struggle for him. How do you view Blackthorne's fate?"

Justin Marks (co-creator): "I think Blackthorne's journey in this episode to the place where it lands, in such a beautiful and powerful scene between Blackthorne and Toranaga - on that hill where he offers up his own life. That's the journey that I hope all of us are on, if we're trying to understand how we interact with cultures we don't know. We want to forge relationships with people that go on, but we don't necessarily speak the same cultural or spiritual - or literal - language.

Which is to say, Blackthorne has been a prisoner of his own ambition. Which one might call the disease of colonialism - or capitalism, too. This idea of a man who is so bound by his ambition and where he belongs in this world, and what is owed to him, that he is the worst prisoner of all. So is Yabushige. They're both like this. And Yabushige never comes to that awakening, and finds himself dying here.

But for Blackthorne, it revolves crucially on this idea of what we call the 'false dream'. We wanted to open this episode on what feels like the beginning of a flashback structure, where we jump forward into the future, and we meet Blackthorne as an old man, and we tell the story of an old man looking back. And looking back with regret on the life that he led.

Only to realise that that was not the dream of an old man looking back - it was the dream of a young man looking forward to one possible version of his life. A version of his life that he has to draw to an end by killing that path. What Blackthorne is trying to kill there isn't himself, it's the version of himself that he's always been.

When Toranaga knocks that knife out of his hand and looks down at him, he's looking at a man reborn now, to a completely different life.

What is powerful is the idea of a man finally, spiritually, letting go. And this is something that we talked about from the very beginning, Cosmo and I. This whole story for Blackthorne is really just a story of a man learning to let go."

Shōgun official podcast Episode 10: A Dream of a Dream

#shōgun #shogun #shogun fx #hiroyuki sanada #cosmo jarvis #john blackthorne #yoshii toranaga #adaptationsdaily #dailyflicks #perioddramaedit #cinematv #tvandfilm #shogun spoilers #shogun 2024 #writing #writer stuff

[tmblrfuckingsucksass]

ANNA SAWAI, HIROYUKI SANADA & COSMO JARVIS

EMMY MAGAZINE PHOTOSHOOT BY ELISABETH CAREN

MARCH 2024

将軍

#shogun #shogun 2024 #fx shogun #photoshoot #emmy magazine #anna sawai #hiroyuki sanada #cosmo jarvis #elisabeth caren #将軍

[yakushells]

# character development

#my gifs #tvedit #yuki kura #yoshii nagakado #shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun fx #japanese series #gifs #gifset #*

[tmblristhefuckingworst]

Shōgun (2024)

🪭🏯🎌🎎🌸🎏

#shogun #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #period drama #feudal japan #poster art #hiroyuki sanada #yoshii toranaga #anna sawai #toda mariko

[dailyflicks]

ANNA SAWAI as TODA MARIKO SHŌGUN — 1x09: "Crimson Sky" (2024)

#shogun #shogunedit #tvedit #shōgun #fx shogun #anna sawai #shogun 2024 #cosmo jarvis #* #by zil #2020s #adventure #drama #history #usersugar #usersavana #tusertyler #shogun spoilers #war

[lousolversons]

Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshii Toranaga in Shōgun (2024)

#shogunedit #shogun #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #hiroyuki sanada #yoshii toranaga #tvedit #television #gif #i am GNAWING at the bars of my enclosure

[ariadnethedragon]

Blackthorne x Mariko

SHŌGUN (2024)

#it’s all in the hands #I need compensation for the emotional damage #shogun #shōgun #shogun 2024 #shogun fx #shogun edit #lady mariko #toda mariko #Mariko Sama #john blackthorne #mariko x blackthorne #john x mariko #anna sawai #cosmo jarvis #period drama gif #perioddramaedit #perioddrama #period drama #perioddramagif #perioddramacentral #period drama edit #tvedit #hands #tvgifs #drama edit #tv drama #hulu #fx

[hokkienmee]

"That was very good. Very good." Shogun (2024)

#ok if no one wants to gif this scene ill do it #she really told him to fuck off #hoshi moeka #保紫萌香 #kanai hiroto #金井浩人 #shogun #SHOGUN 将軍 #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #.gif #jdrama #shogunedit

[redsamuraiii]

Women of Shogun (2024)

Asian films have always featured strong women who are feminine, gentle and caring with those they love and care but fearless, steadfast and a force to be reckoned with, against enemies. They do things men never thought of doing or want to do.

Sometimes they are strong. Sometimes they are weak. That's what makes them human and relatable because none of us are born strong or strong all the time. Life break us down at some point of our lives, which pave way to growth and maturity, to be stronger.

This is what inspires us.

#shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun fx #anna sawai #mariko toda #hoshi moeka #usami fuji #fumi nikaido #ochiba no kata #onna musha #period drama #jidaigeki #japan #asian drama #drama icons #icons doramas #doramas icons #dorama icons #dorama #life

[fanghuas]

Give the guns to Fuji-sama.

#shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun fx #usami fuji #john blackthorne #toda mariko #look mom I made a gif

[femininemenon]

TODA MARIKO and JOHN BLACKTHORNE SHŌGUN — 1x09: “Crimson Sky” (2024)

#shogun #shogunedit #perioddramaedit #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #shōgun #mariko x john #john x mariko #anna sawai #cosmo jarvis #gifs #byzil #usersugar #usersavana #tusertyler #perioddramasource #weloveperioddrama #onlyperioddramas #shogun spoilers

[ladynamie]

SHŌGUN (2024) - Chapter Ten: A Dream of a Dream

#shōgun #hiroyuki sanada #lord yoshii toranaga #tadanobu asano #kashigi yabushige #fx shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun tv show #shogun #shogun fx #yoshii toranaga #shogun spoilers #gif set #gifs

[lafiametta]

Blackthorne really needs to stick to the things he does best, like piloting ships and saving Toranaga's life, as opposed to things he's terrible at, like food preparation and hosting dinner parties.

#shōgun #shogun 2024 #shogun #shogun fx #fx shogun #shogun spoilers #john blackthorne