Once you figure out that this person actually lived — Mariko is based on Hosokawa Garasha — you don’t have to make believe. Like this was a real person. It was kind of easy to just channel ...

This is a character who we hear a lot about through other people's eyes ... It's an adaptation of Mariko's real-life counterpart Hosokawa Gracia's real death poem. We slightly butchered the ...

That's not what Mariko is giving you. The TikToks aren't super fast, as lots of people (mostly men) do on TikTok. They're paced like real life, as if we're voyeuristically watching someone enjoy ...