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00:03 It's just amazing how every piece
00:08 has a lot of collaboration.
00:10 Hi, I'm Sana Sepidon, and I'm the designer of hair.
00:14 I'm Rebecca Lee, the makeup designer.
00:17 It's my second time working with Sana and also Rebecca.
00:20 You know, there was no hesitation in sharing ideas,
00:23 and I love them both.
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00:28 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
00:42 I grew up in Japan.
00:43 I was watching those Japanese samurai era movie or TV show.
00:47 I never thought I'm going to wear that.
00:49 I'm really proud to be on this show
00:52 because my background is Asian, and I've never
00:55 had a chance to work on a show with such representation
00:58 and an almost exclusively Asian cast here in North
01:02 America for a global audience.
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01:09 Japanese society in the 1600s had a very specific look.
01:15 Hair played an important part in stature and hierarchy.
01:19 We have everything from people in the village
01:22 who work outside and have more of a tan, weathered complexion
01:28 to our lords and ladies in the palace
01:30 who have a much lighter makeup and a more refined, groomed
01:33 look.
01:35 Obviously, in 16th, 17th century,
01:37 they didn't have a lot of options for makeup,
01:39 so we had to play with the simple things like skin
01:43 and just lip color.
01:45 Authenticity is really important for this show.
01:48 Everybody wants to make a very authentic product.
01:52 And how do you make something that's authentic
01:54 when there are no photographs?
01:56 We studied a lot of previous films
01:59 and looked at what was working and what wouldn't
02:01 work in our society today.
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02:10 You know, this bald part, we all used what we called habutai,
02:16 which is like oiled paper cloth.
02:18 That's a Japanese bald cap.
02:21 These are very fine pieces of silk
02:24 treated with a special type of Japanese wax,
02:27 and they're applied on the head like a bald cap,
02:31 wrapped with these straps.
02:32 Some days, we have hundreds of samurais,
02:38 and we weren't sure how we were going to do this.
02:40 Fortunately, the Japanese wig technicians
02:44 that came over to work on the show and our other advisors
02:47 had a solution to this.
02:49 The technicians came to teach our crew
02:51 how to manage these beautiful masterpieces.
02:54 The way they honor their craft, it just
02:56 becomes a piece of artwork.
02:59 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
03:24 The stuff that we've learned from Japan
03:26 has been a real cultural exchange for us
03:29 within the hair and makeup departments
03:32 with our Japanese counterparts.
03:34 They work in this time period a lot, and they know it so well.
03:38 So it's incredible to have them just in the trailer next door.
03:44 So we work very closely with them.
03:49 Each one of these wigs, the hair is laid on,
03:51 and then it's styled.
03:52 And so there isn't a lot of room to play with the wig.
03:55 Once it's styled, it pretty much needs to stay exactly as is.
03:59 But we wanted to have a little more of our action
04:02 and adventure feel to our stories.
04:04 Yeah!
04:05 We wanted the hair to break down and to look
04:12 windswept at times and to look messy
04:14 and to go through what the character was going through.
04:17 We tried a lot of ways, especially
04:20 for the guy's [JAPANESE]
04:23 We finally decided mixing version,
04:27 so east meets west on my hair.
04:30 Here is Hiro Sanada's Hiro wig.
04:32 This is known as aohatsu mage, which
04:35 means that it is a full wig.
04:38 And this ponytail that stands up is known as the mage.
04:41 This is his colors, black and gold,
04:44 so all the cords match their costume colors, their costume
04:47 palette.
04:48 And then we have thousands of cords
04:52 and thousands of colors and textures
04:55 to create these very elaborate hair ties.
04:57 Here's our wig for Ochiba.
05:03 Ochiba's hair is so special, and it has these beautiful drapes.
05:07 All of this is handmade and then sewn into the wig.
05:10 And she has the longest hair because she
05:12 is the woman of the highest rank in our world.
05:15 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
05:45 Mariko's hair goes all the way until my hip.
05:48 And for every kimono that I wear,
05:52 I was able to choose a beautiful ribbon that went well with it.
05:56 Sometimes we went with something that
05:58 was more vibrant so that we see the contrast.
06:01 And sometimes we just wanted to go simple so that the kimono
06:04 would stand out more.
06:05 The fun thing with Anna's hair was, you know,
06:13 you could easily rock this on the runway
06:15 as much as you could look completely, perfectly natural
06:18 in 16th century Japan.
06:20 It was a lot of fun.
06:21 It was a lot of fun creating her character.
06:23 This experience of Shogun has been monumental.
06:34 I mean, I think it's probably been one of the biggest shows
06:36 I've done ever.
06:40 The mastery, the artistry, seeing the sets,
06:43 and how incredibly cinematic and beautiful the show look,
06:47 this is an absolute high point in my career.
06:49 [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
06:51 Yeah, we'll never forget it.
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