For the role, the actor had to learn traditional Japanese, how to walk in a kimono, how to kneel properly and even how to fight.
Anna Sawai was born in New Zealand to Japanese parents, lived in Tokyo, Hong Kong and the Philippines as a child, and has been spending a lot of time in Los Angeles lately, largely to promote the series in which she stars, “Shōgun.” But ask her where home is and she doesn’t hesitate to reply. “Japan is where my heart belongs,” she said in a recent video interview. “When I was growing up in Tokyo I wanted to get out of there.
“I think that's something that we see even today in Japan, where there's a certain expectation for women, and you're not supposed to do this, or you're not supposed to say this if you're a female. We see the struggles that Mariko is going through, and in the end, we're really able to see the power that these women have.” Sawai caught the performing bug as a child, when she landed the title role in a Japanese television production of “Annie” .
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