Season 2 of FX’s Emmy-winning feudal Japan series Shōgun, starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis., announces more returning cast and some new faces.
Returning season one cast are Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Toranaga, Cosmos Jarvis as John Blackthorne, Fumi Nikaidô as Lady Ochiba, Shinnosuke Abe as Mariko’s husband Buntaro, Hiroto Kanai as Yabushige’s nephew Omi, Yoriko Dôguchi as Toranaga’s wife Kiri, Tommy Bastow as Portuguese Priest Alvito, Yuko Miyamoto as brothel owner Gin, Eita Okuno as Toranaga’s half-brother Saeki, and Yuka Kouri as courteson Kiku.
Anna Sawai’s Lady Mariko and Tananobu Asano’s Yabushige, died in season one and won’t be back.
New to the series are Asami Kizukawa as Aya, Masataka Kubota as Hyūga, Sho Kaneta as Hidenobu, Takaaki Enoki as Lord Ito, and Jun Kunimura as Gōda.
Season 2 will be in production from late January to early September next year in Vancouver.
Season 2 continues the historically-inspired saga of two men from different worlds whose fates are entwined, jumping ahead 10 years as Lord Toranaga strives to become Shōgun, the leader ofJapan’s warrior class..
In Season 1, [Toranaga] didn’t become a shōgun yet, So, I’d like to see him become the leader of Japan. That is my hope. — Hiroyuki Sanada to Deadline: Hollywood..
Creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo and their writers room finished scripts for all ten episodes of season 2 in February and started planning how to make the new season.
We’re coming out of the writers room now. We’re also done with the 10 episodes, and we have our finale now. That’s allowing us to start figuring out how we’re going to shoot this. But we’re very excited about the plan. — Justin Marks to Deadline: Hollywood.
Season one, which covered all of James Cavell’s epic novel, won pretty much every award it was nominated for at the Emmys, Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards and SAG Awards.
Filming locations in Vancouver:
A big Shōgun location in season one was Minaty Bay on the Sea to Sky Highway to Whistler as the fishing village of Ajiro.
The bay is a popular private filming location for many Vancouver productions like Resident Alien and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The nearby gravel pit is currently the site of The Last of Us’s massive Jackson set.
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Another Shōgun filming location was the RV parking lot at the Swiss Canadian Mountain Range Association Gun Club in Coquitlam.,where upper Ajiro was built withJohn Blackthorne’s house.
The biggest Shōgun set was feudal Osaka at 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.
Noblemen’s houses.
This is also the location of the entrance to Osaka castle.
The Osaka set is still standing in Port Moody three years after Shogun wrapped and used by other productions, primarily Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender which turned it into its Earth Kingdom.
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Ten years on in the timeline, Toranaga’s rising city of Edo (the future Tokyo) will play a bigger role and may need its own standing set in season 2.
FX renewed Shōgun for two more seasons.
Shōgun Season 2:
Working title: CATEGORY 10.
Episodes: 10.
BC filming dates:: January 28 2026 – September 04, 2026
Created by: Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks.
Showrunner: Justin Marks.
Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Fumi Nikaidô, Shinnosuke Abe, Hiroto Kanai , Yoriko Dôguchi, Tommy Bastow, Yuko Miyamoto, Eita Okuno, Yuka Kouri, Asami Kizukawa, Masataka Kubota, Sho Kaneta, Takaaki Enoki, Jun Kunimura.
Soundstages: North Shore Studios.
Producers: Justin Marks, Rachel Kondo, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Michael De Luca, James Clavell’s daughter Michaela Clavell, Tim Van Patten, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmos Jarvis.