Overview
- Filming for Season 2 is officially scheduled to begin in Vancouver in January 2026, with episodes to air on FX and stream on Hulu in the U.S. and on Disney+ internationally.
- FX named new cast members including Masataka Kubota, Sho Kaneta, Takaaki Enoki and Jun Kunimura, joining returning stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis with several supporting players back from Season 1.
- The new chapter is set ten years after the first season, continuing the historically inspired saga without revealing plot specifics.
- The writers’ room includes Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks, Shannon Goss, Matt Lambert, Maegan Houang, Emily Yoshida, Caillin Puente and Sofie Somoroff, with directing duties by Hiromi Kamata, Takeshi Fukunaga, Anthony Byrne, Kate Herron and Marks.
- No premiere date has been announced, and producers have indicated the follow-up will not arrive within a year of this update.
- Season 1 became FX’s most-awarded series in a single Emmy season with 18 wins, propelling the project beyond its original limited-series plan.