Yoshi Amao

Yoshi Amao is an actor comedian and samurai artist He plays a role of Sera in FXs SHOGUN which wins 19 Emmy Award including Best Drama Yoshi was born in Osaka and moved to New York in 1990 He learned Wakiryu Tate Japanese sword fighting under Tahei Waki formed the theater company Samurai Sword Soul in 2003 and has been performing all over the US His theatrical acting careers are Off Broadway Shows Chushingura47 ronin at ARTNew York Theatres and Deadly SheWolf Assassin at Armageddon at La MaMa Theater NYC as a lead actorcochoreographer which was highly acclaimed by the New York Times He also worked as a fight director for Pacific Overtures at Signature Theater in DC and Tarantino Live in London Other actors credits on TVsFilms are Mr Robot USA Blacklist NBC Billions Showtime Samurai Sportsman OLN and 11 awardwinning short film My Daughter Yoshiko etc Yoshi hosted several TV shows such as Made in Japao Record TV in Brazil Japanizi Going Going Gong Disney XD and Big in Japan in several countries in Europe Also he has been hosting cherry blossom festivals in Washington DC New York Brooklyn Philadelphia etc