"Akane No Mai" Archives

HBO series Westworld certainly has taken some interesting turns this season, perhaps none so exciting and promising as introducing Shogun World host Akane, played by Rinko Kikuchi. Rinko Kikuchi as Akane from "Akane No Mai" photo: John P Johnson/HBO The majority of American audiences will no doubt recognize Rinko Kikuchi from her role as Mako Mori in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim[...]

While this was probably the biggest part of the episode's action, there was a pretty big emotional hit back over in Westworld in the town of Sweetwater. Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy in HBO's "Westworld", s2e5 "Akane No Mai" Photo courtesy of HBO Specifically, after a night spent together in passion, Dolores (Wood) came to a[...]

Episode 3 gave us our first look into another Delos park- The Raj.  Episode 4 had some SERIOUS information drops, like the true identity of The Man In Black. If you missed last week's season 2 episode 4, you can catch up here. This week's Westworld s2e5 "Akane No Mai" episode description reads: "Shogun World extends a welcome to[...]

There was a (literal) flash of a man with a katana, and the preview for season 2, episode 5 showed even more of the rich Japanese-themed area. Today, HBO released four first-look images of the new park area ahead of this coming Sunday's episode, "Akane No Mai" Roughly translated, (super roughly by sengatenga on reddit) the title means[...]