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Mariko's death is adapted from the novel, but the writers originally planned to end the episode with the shinobi infiltrating the castle, with Mariko's death moved for the next episode. Justin Marks then suggested moving the scene to the end of the ninth episode, explaining that her death would get the episode "to feel complete."
Yoko Shimada (Japanese: 島田 陽子, Hepburn: Shimada Yōko, 17 May 1953 – 25 July 2022) was a Japanese actress, best known to Western audiences for her portrayal of Mariko in the 1980 miniseries Shōgun. [1]
In “Shōgun,” which is based on James Clavell’s novel of the same name and set in 1600 feudal Japan, Lady Mariko is placed in charge of translating for Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) and ...
"Ladies of the Willow World" (Japanese: うたかたの女たち, Hepburn: Utakata no Onnatachi) is the sixth episode of the American historical drama television series Shōgun, based on the novel by James Clavell. The episode was written by Maegan Houang, and directed by Hiromi Kamata.
For Sawai, a Japanese actress who was born in New Zealand and raised in Tokyo, playing Mariko was transformative. "Her character made me rethink what I want to do in life," Sawai tells T&C .
As Shōgun details through the lives of Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai), Ochiba (Fumi Nikaido), and Fuji (Moeka Hoshi), a woman's life choices—if you can even call them that—consisted of wife, mother ...
John Blackthorne, a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga, a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties, who must prove her value and ...
Later in the episode, Mariko (Anna Sawai) tells him that head villager Muraji (Yasunari Takeshima) held a meeting to decide what to do with the pheasant since it was causing such an olfactory ...