Yeah he seems very socially awkward here, not unlike his character Blackthorn

he is very shy in like every interview seems thats is that his personality

Humble.

i think he has a stutter. he did well to hide it by giving a rather long pause before stringing his words

@@MyrtDFY oh okay, but he did a great job in the show

But they do when it comes ww2😅

Or blackwash

@@unklmonk651 well you have to figure, that was a different Japan back in the 1930's and 40's. the time period they're reflecting in this show, is way before the modern era. still i will agree that Hollywood usually don't portray Japan right, but we're in a age of intolerance now. so that explains why this show feels more authentic, that's because we wanna make sure that cultures are presented in the best way possible. in the past that was not the case, but in fairness Hollywood knew nothing about Japan in the 70's. i mean they barely understood Chinese culture, even when Bruce Lee was alive and doing his thing. that's because the only history that Americans learned up to that point, was how Pearl Harbor got attacked. so as a result there was some prejudice still lingering over from the war. not to mention what happened in Vietnam, but in some ways that was America's fault for getting themselves into something they had no idea of what they were walking into. that's because our government and people in power back then didn't care how the public felt about it. we've come a long way since those days, but we still have a ways to go. the nice thing now a days, we want to learn about other cultures, the good and the bad. it's because we can learn from others.

Or forcibly try to put black lesbians into it.😂

??? What does that even mean????

Well in the book it's written in English anytime they speak Portuguese or Latin while there are some Japanese phrases that never get translated for the reader.

Or it would have been entirely in Japanese and Portuguese, since William Adams, the English sailor Blackthorne is based on, could speak Portuguese, and communicated through the language in Japan with translators (before he learned Japanede). English really wasn't present there: Portuguese, a bit of Dutch (which he also spoke). This is for TV, and English is the lingua franca. Another good argument was made regards the book.

Good luck finding an actress of any meaningful acting skill who can speak fluent Japanese, quality Portuguese, and likely English to be able to communicate with the English speaking production. Not to mention Blackthorne's actor would need to speak Portuguese fluently, while being British (or at least British passing), so with a British accent, and him able to convincingly speak in Japanese as Blackthorne learns it in the show. Seems like a ridiculous ask, one that would have the entire show in subtitles for the Western audience who will be the main viewing audience of this American (ENG language) project. Instead, having a lot of it in English makes the show much more palatable to the Western/American audience who still are turned off by subtitles. Making the project all the more risky and possibly unable to get greenlit because the risk was too high. So we got this amazing show, and it has English for Portuguese, which I don't think they lost any meaningful audience viewership due to that choice, while they absolutely would have had there been no ENG in the entire show.

@@nathanp2007 Theres really only a handful of Portuguese traders in the show, they can easily find 5-10 big names from Portugal or Brazil that ticks all the boxes.

Bc it's a Japanese story being told to American audiences. The Portuguese are featured in the story but not the center of it. They weren't trying to disrespect the Portuguese

@@jdavis11576 it’s not a Japanese story, it’s a British story. And it’s being told to a global audience, not an American audience.

MF you answered your own stupid question@@RoyKoopaling

@RoyKoopaling So "it's not a Japanese story" but it takes place in feudal Japan lol u sound ridiculous... so I guess Tokugawa Ieyasu was British🤣 . FX is an AMERICAN production network...yes the show is on other platforms like Hulu to allow other countries to see it...but it's an American show telling a Japanese story....you probably think The Last Samurai is a British movie too🤣

@@jdavis11576 Sigh… Shōgun is a book written by British author James Clavell, about a man called John Blackthorne, an ENGLISH sailor based on a real life English sailor called William Adams. It’s a British story about Japan. Now within the story, yes, obviously it’s very Japanese. What it ain’t is American, nor is it ‘for Americans’. It’s for a global audience.

Why are many people surprised that he speaks English?

@@AnnabelleTapioca Because he's Japanese and Japanese people suck at English, maybe. But um... as I was saying, his English isn't even very good... ^^;

He moved to the US in his 40s, you don't just pick up a language that late in life. Not to mention that Japanese and English are so fundamentally different you can't even use the same linguistic terminology to describe them. He's doing extremely well, in fact.

@@easternlights3155 interesting, thanks for the explanation

Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks have; they developed the TV series. Anna Sawai said she read it. Michaela Clavell certainly has. So that definitely more than half of the group here. And knowing about Cosmo Jarvis' commitment to a role, my guess is he's read it too.

Why would he possibly feel bad about this incredible adaptation? How odd

@@burntgod7165not only that, they created a 1000+ bible on the book/story and the important historical aspects of it to get right, that all of the writers contributed to, including sanada who has read the book in japanese and english.

Nor should they have. The writers wrote a screenplay that told a story, and they might have had to change a few things to transfer it to a visual medium. If they read the book, they might actually end up expressing an idea in the book that might be different in the script.

There’s always gotta be one of these snooty elitist types smh

That was going to happen Afrocentrics claim that Korea China and Japan where originally African. They are claiming a black shogun when he was Japanese with Chinese ancestry

who is asking actually ?

​@@randyx3976 No one. It's a silly strawman argument. There might have been a handful of people ranting on Twitter but that's it.

One guy asking that question. Trying to make this a bigger race than it actually is.

What ya talkin about 😂 he is literally the best part of the show

Your comment - not good.

trash opinion lol

I think he is perfect Fits the rolll as well as can be

Bro he's the best part of the show

seriously how dumb are you that you cant read subtitles without falling asleep LOL😂😂😂

How are subtitles overused, when 99.99% of Japan’s population only spoke Japanese in 1600? What doesn’t make sense to me, are the Portuguese characters speaking English to each other.

I can watch the scenes and read the subtitles at the same time. What's so hard about it? You watch TV for a long time, especially anime, and it's a necessary skill that you adapt as second-nature. Plus, it's not overused, the subtitles are only there to cater to English-speaking audiences when scenes are played out that involve the Japanese language, or other non-English languages. Not that I'm saying I personally watch too much anime, I have just grown up my whole life watching movies and TV shows with subtitles implemented into them, so naturally this mental multitasking skill would develop within me naturally, so I do understand why it can be pretty difficult for people like you to keep in sync with the continuous flow of immersion

@@theultimatewarlord69420 That's not a life skill I would brag about............. just sayin'

As someone with only 70% of his hearing since birth I can tell you subtitles never take away from catching all the wonderful cinematography - you just likely will not have been used to it. I do wonder if this will broaden horizons for people to seek out other largely subtitled work - anime seems popular with the younger audience these days which help but I grew up on watching Gobzilla, Baby Cart and Seven Samurai with my dad and deaf mother (as there was no subtitles back then on mainstream media - there wasn't even teletext or Ceefax at that time) so it was largely Asian or French films we saw.