TOKYO -- After roughly two decades working in Hollywood, Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada took on a new challenge by playing the leading warlord in the Japanese historical drama "Shogun."
Movie star wanted to make sure everything in the series, filmed in Canada, looked authentic

Japanese film star Hiroyuki Sanada plays the fictional warlord Yoshii Toranaga on "Shogun." (Courtesy of FX Networks)
TOKYO -- After roughly two decades working in Hollywood, Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada took on a new challenge by playing the leading warlord in the Japanese historical drama "Shogun."