“ Shogun ” star Takehiro Hira says he’s only seen one script for Season 2. Even so, he thinks he knows the fate of his character, Ishido Kazunari.

“I can’t really talk about that, but you know, the older characters in ‘Shogun’ loosely follow the actual historical figures. So my guy doesn’t really survive much after the big war, the battle. So my days are numbered,” Hira told me Wednesday night at the premiere of his new Searchlight Pictures dramedy “Rental Family” at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles.

“I will probably have an honorable death,” he said, before teasing, “But I could come back as a…”

Hira was nominated for an Emmy last year for his work on the show in the best supporting actor in a drama series category.

At almost the same exact time as the “Rental Family”

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