HBO's 'Girls' goes to Japan: 'Sumimasen!'
In the new season of HBO's 'Girls', Zosia Mamet's character Shoshanna moves to Japan. .
NEW YORK — Shoshanna Shapiro has finally unlocked the mystery of who she is.
"That I'm secretly a Japanese person," says Zosia Mamet, 28, whose Girls character this season takes a marketing job in Tokyo, where she's seen in Sunday's episode of the HBO comedy (10 p.m. ET/PT). Shosh is "a very quirky, specific individual and the way that Japanese culture embraces that makes her feel at ease. She feels like she's spreading her Japanese wings."
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