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Yeah, I said it. Justice for Tadanobu Asano!
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"Emily Yoshida reminded me the Uncut Gems reference that we always used to use in the writer's room for Yabushige."
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All the secrets behind that gripping final scene between Shōgun's most fun rivals.
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Have questions about what happened? What comes next? We've got you covered.
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"Like what would the Yabushige Chronicles look like?" "Like, Yabushige goes to London, you know?"
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“I don’t control the wind. I only study it.”
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Could we have actually avoided tragedy??
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“Accepting death isn’t surrender. Flowers are only flowers because they fall.”
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What's in a name? Mariko's ultimate vengeance, that's what.
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The ornate and beautiful tea ceremony sequence that centers this episode is another finely-rendered example of how the series values patience.
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"“Even when there’s evil in this land, no one has the right to tear the realm apart."
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“Death is the end of having lived. It is an affirmation of life itself.”
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It's a little bit more complicated than Hiromatsu makes it sound.
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“We live and we die. We control nothing beyond that.”
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“It is war.”
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“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Today, I will learn how to dive.”
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The man who stands at the greatest height is the loneliest man in the realm.
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So much of what John Blackthorne encounters in Japan is couched in mystery, unseen motive, and traditions he neither understands nor respects. At least at first.
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Shōgun's showrunners swapped Blackthorne's musket regime for a more historically accurate chain shot.
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The scene reveals a lot about how quickly Blackthorne's ascended in Japanese society — and how Toranaga sees people as pawns.