You have a bunch of Americans who got together with a bunch of Europeans and a bunch of Japanese and made a show in Canada, and now we are standing here on stage in England, — Shōgun showrunner Justin Marks.
FX’s acclaimed BC-filmed feudal Japan series Shōgun wins Best International Series at the BAFTA TV Awards in London.
The BAFTA is the latest in a string of honours for Shōgun from the Emmys to the Golden Globes to the SAG Awards.
FX renewed Shōgun for two more seasons , after its massive success.
Season One:
Adapted from James Clavell’s bestselling 1975 novel, Shōgun charts the collision of two ambitious men ( Hiroyuki Sanada’s Japanese Lord Toranaga and Cosmos Jarvis’s English pilot John Blackthorne) from two different worlds and a mysterious female samurai (Anna Sawai’s Lady Mariko)
Shōgun season one filmed in British Columbia for 10 months with a largely Japanese cast, starting in the Fall of 2021 through the Winter and Spring of 2022 — from Wya Point on Vancouver Island to Minaty Bay on Howe Sound to Vancouver, with a huge Osaka harbour set in Port Moody.
Why not shoot in Japan? There isn’t enough open, undeveloped land and it turns out coastal British Columbia is “a very good match” for 1600 Japan, according to Shōgun showrunner Justin Marks.
Related: Blackthorne’s Back For Shōgun Season 2. Production Starts January in Vancouver
Season Two:
Season 2 of Shōgun, which continues the historically-inspired saga of two men from different worlds whose fates are entwined, jumping ahead 10 years as Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) strives to become Shōgun, the leader ofJapan’s warrior class.
Hiroyuki Sanada’s Lord Toranaga and Cosmos Jarvis’s English pilot John Blackthorne return to British Columbia for season 2, which goes into production this January.
Filming in British Columbia:
Fishing village of Ajiro: location — Minaty Bay on the Sea to Sky Highway to Whistler.
Blackthorne’s house in upper Ajiro location — built in a RV parking lot at the Swiss Canadian Mountain Range Association Gun Club in Coquitlam.
Osaka harbour location: the closed-down Flavelle sawmill on the Port Moody waterfront. Crew built jetties into the water and fishermen’s houses that wrapped around the inlet.
Osaka castle location: the closed-down Flavelle sawmill on the Port Moody waterfront
