There’s a nice interview with actor Tadanobu Asano up at The Hollywood Reporter. He talks a lot about his craft, so even if you aren’t interested in Shōgun, you might be interested! “A survey of Asano’s filmography features starring roles in projects from many of Japan’s most acclaimed directorial voices of the past 30 years, including Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer), Takeshi Kitano (Zatōichi), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Journey to the Shore), Shinya Tsukamoto (Gemini), Hirokazu Kore-eda (Maboroshi), Shunji Iwai (Picnic), Gakuryu Ishii (Electric Dragon 80.000 V) and Nagisa Oshima (Taboo). On the international front, he has collaborated with top regional auteurs — Thailand’s Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Last Life in the Universe), Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao-hsien (Café Lumière), Russia’s Sergei Bodrov (Mongol) — as well as a growing roster of Hollywood titans, like Martin Scorsese (Silence), Roland Emmerich (Midway), Johnny Depp (Minamata), Marvel with its Thor movies (Asano played Hogun) and Warner Bros. with the Mortal Kombat franchise (as Raiden). Throughout it all and whatever the part, Asano has remained consistently and beguilingly watchable.”

Read more here.