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Release Date:
October 1, 2010
Original Title:
大奥 男女逆転
Alternate Titles:
Ooku
Sógun lady
Ôoku
Госпожа-сёгун и её мужчины
大奥
Genres:
Drama | History | Science Fiction
Production Companies:
Asmik Ace Entertainment
Chubu-nippon Broadcasting Company
J Storm
MBS
TBS
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 116
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children. A young man named Unoshin Mizuno hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu, but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible. To raise his social status and also save his poor family, Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku (inner chambers of the Shugun's castle) and attempts to vie among 3,000 other men for the affection of the female shogun. What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful, but highly ambitious and conniving. In this environment, the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku.
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Art Direction:
Hidefumi Hanatani
Associate Producer:
Keisuke Watanabe
Comic Book:
Fumi Yoshinaga
Costume Design:
Kumiko Ogawa
Director:
Fuminori Kaneko
Director of Photography:
Tokushô Kikumura
Editor:
Shigeki Matsuo
Executive Producer:
Masao Teshima
Kazuya Hamana
Producer:
Miyako Araki
Aki Isoyama
Screenplay:
Natsuko Takahashi
Theme Song Performance:
Arashi
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