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‘Shōgun’ Cocreator Rachel Kondo Loves Costume Dramas, Japanese Punctuation, and Texas
The most acclaimed television series of the year, FX’s historical samurai saga Shōgun took home eighteen Emmy Awards last month, the biggest haul ever for a show in a single year. Based on the 1975 best-selling novel by James Clavell, which was turned into a hit 1980 miniseries, this version was lauded for its authenticity—it’s mostly in Japanese, with subtitles, and uses a mostly Japanese cast—as well as its refreshing focus on strong female characters. This painstaking attention to detail is a testament to its creators, the married team of Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks. They spent more than five years on the show—their first time working together—during a tumultuous time that spanned a pandemic, the birth of their two children, and a move to Maui.The couple…The post ‘Shōgun’ Cocreator Rachel Kondo Loves Costume Dramas, Japanese Punctuation, and Texas appeared first on Texas Monthly.