Masato SakaiMadenokouji Arikoto
Mikako TabeTokugawa Iemitsu
Koki TanakaGyokuei
Hiroyuki HirayamaInaba Masakatsu
Nao MinamisawaYuki
Toshinori OmiMurase Masasuke
Yasunori DantaMatsudaira Nobutsuna
Takashi NaitoSawamura DenemonWhy it may be worth watching
- Ooku: The Beginning combines Drama storytelling.
- The principal cast includes Masato Sakai, Mikako Tabe, Koki Tanaka.
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Ooku: The Beginning
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”
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Best suited to viewers looking for Drama. The available catalogue spans 1 season.
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