His 'Shōgun' warrior lives by a (very flexible) moral code, says Tadanobu Asano

In playing Kashigi Yabushige, the actor found a few challenges on set.

He boils a man alive in the first episode of FX's vaunted 10-part series “Shōgun,” but somehow we’re still charmed by Kashigi Yabushige, played by Tadanobu Asano. Like all samurai, he lives by a strict code. Unlike others, he's willing to bend that code to survive in a land where life is cheap and death is glorious. Such a land is feudal Japan. The year is 1600, the events that unfold a mixture of fiction and fact based on James Clavell’s bestselling novel.

” He’s a weasel with a sword, the drunken-samurai trope like the tragic buffoon Kikuchiyo, portrayed by the great Toshiro Mifune in the Akira Kurosawa classic “Seven Samurai.” “Honestly, all of it is important, not just what Mifune did but De Niro, Method — anything from the current to the past,” Tadanobu says about his approach to acting. “With Yabushige, he’s kind of a big character, but I always had to find somewhere where it was grounded in realism using all of that.

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