The original post: /r/television by /u/leejtam on 2024-04-26 16:40:19.
I have not finished Shogun, I am on ep9. But something has been bothering me the whole time. They said since the beginning that Mariko is translating Portuguese to Japanese and vice versa. Are the actors that play Mariko and Blackthorne simply speaking English in place of Portugese for the audience benefit? Sometimes I wondered if the Japanese maybe weren’t that familiar with English and thought it was Portuguese. Hopefully I don’t seem too stupid for asking this lol