Ooku: The Beginning
2012•15•1 Seasons•10 Episodes•3.5•Ended
Drama
During the reign of the shogun, Iemitsu, an epidemic causes the population of men to greatly drop, leading to an ooku where the role of men and women are reversed. Thus, “the women become the shogun, served by 3000 handsome men”
Network
TBS
Origin
JP
Cast
Masato Sakai
Madenokouji Arikoto
Mikako Tabe
Tokugawa Iemitsu
Koki Tanaka
Gyokuei
Hiroyuki Hirayama
Inaba Masakatsu
Nao Minamisawa
Yuki
Toshinori Omi
Murase Masasuke
Yasunori Danta
Matsudaira Nobutsuna
Takashi Naito
Sawamura Denemon
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