Shōgun Season 2 Confirmed At FX, With Stars Hiroyuki Sanada And Cosmo Jarvis Returning

The saga of Shōgun will be getting another chapter after all.

The Emmy-winning historical drama will officially return for Season 2, FX announced on Wednesday, with physical production scheduled to begin in January in Vancouver. Hiroyuki Sanada will return to star as Lord Toranaga and will serve as an executive producer as well. Cosmo Jarvis will also return to reprise his role as John Blackthorne and will serve as a co-executive producer.

Season 2 of Shōgun "is set ten years after the events of the first season," per the official description, "and continues the historically-inspired saga of these two men from different worlds whose fates are inextricably entwined."

An adaptation of James Clavell's bestselling novel, Season 1 of Shōgun was originally billed as a limited series when it debuted last year, but FX later announced it was developing two additional seasons of the sweeping samurai epic, allowing it to compete in the drama series categories at the Emmys. The move paid off: Shōgun took home a record 18 Emmys, including wins for best drama series, best lead actor for Sanada and best lead actress for Anna Sawai.

Showrunners Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo will return for Season 2 and "recently wrapped a writers' room devoted to creating a wholly original new chapter to the first season," since Season 1 covered all of Clavell's original novel. "There were a lot of questions that we felt were still unanswered in the story," Marks noted when the additional seasons were first reported, adding that he and Kondo already have an ending in mind for the series: "We know how all of this ends in the final moment. And once we saw that moment, we said, 'Oh, now we have to get to that. Now we have to do that.'... We think we have something that is exciting and surprising."