Meet the MVP of ‘Shōgun’ — Ex-Punk Rocker and Japanese Movie Star Tadanobu Asano

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Meet the MVP of ‘Shōgun’ — Ex-Punk Rocker and Japanese Movie Star Tadanobu Asano

By the time you’ve inched toward the halfway point of the first episode of Shōgun, the epic new limited series that revisits James Clavell’s 1975 doorstopper of a historical novel about early 1600s Japan, you’ve already seen an eyeful: massive schooners, flashing swords, military processions, political power plays, a father and his infant son sentenced to death, a half-dozen English prisoners awaiting their fate in a pit. And then, out of nowhe…