When the “ Shogun ” team gathered in a Washington, D.C. hotel room last February, champagne in hand, counting down to the show’s global release, producer Miyagawa Eriko wrestled with the TV settings and watched the clock tick toward launch. “That moment when something you’ve poured years of your life into finally goes out into the world, I thought, perhaps this is what feels like to send a child off to college, that mix of pride, terror and love,” she recalled during her keynote address at the MPA seminar at the Tokyo International Film Festival .

The emotional moment came as the culmination of a full-circle journey for Miyagawa, who had returned to D.C. to screen episodes at MPA headquarters just before the series launched. For the Yokohama native who graduated from Georgetown Un

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