Ooku -War of the Belles-
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- TV Show: Ooku -War of the Belles-
- Romaji: Ooku -Hana no Ran-
- Japanese: 大奥~華の乱~
- Director: Toru Hayashi, Yasuhiro Kawamura
- Writer: Masaya Ozaki, Taeko Asano
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episodes: 10
- Release Date: October 13 - December 22, 2005
- Runtime: Thurs. 22:00-22:54
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Following the first installment in 2003 and the second installment in 2004, the third installment of “Oh-Oku - War of the Belles” is set in the Genroku Period, a time when the popular culture of the Tokugawa Shogunate came to flower and Japan experienced its time of greatest plenty. This series is not a morality play concerned with good winning over evil and it is not a swordplay samurai drama. The main characters are not sword-wielding samurai but rather delicate women. This series is set in the place known as the Oh-Oku of Tokugawa Castle in presenting the real-life drama of the women living there. The time is the First Year of Genroku (1688). To the background of the flourishing of the Tokugawa family, the 5th Shogun Tsunayoshi (played by Shosuke Tanihara) has lived his life pursuing pleasure, accompanied by music and dance. If there are any worries they are limited to the problem of a successor. His official wife Nobuko (Norika Fuijiwara) has no children. Although he has a son and a daughter by his concubine Oden-No-Kata (Eiko Koike), because Oden is of common birth, she is not liked by Tsunayoshi’s mother, and the situation is uncertain with only one possible successor to the throne. Tsunayoshi’s mother has confided with Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa (Kazuki Kitamura), an extremely clever advisor to the shogun.
Notes
- Related titles:
- Ooku 3 (Fuji TV / 2003)
- Ooku (The Inner Palace) -Episode One- (Fuji TV / 2004)
- Ooku (The Inner Palace) -Episode One- SP (Fuji TV / 2005)
- Ooku -War of the Belles- (Fuji TV / 2005)
- Ooku -War of the Belles- SP (Fuji TV / 2005)
- O-oku: The Movie (2006)
Cast
- Rina Uchiyama - Yasuko
- Shosuke Tanihara - Tsunayoshi Tokugawa
- Norika Fujiwara - Nobuko
- Eiko Koike - Oden no kata
- Saki Takaoka - Uemonsa
- Kazuki Kitamura - Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa
- Shinobu Nakayama - Odenshi
- Shihori Kanjiya - Someko
- Kimiko Yo - Otowa
- Kyoko Enami - Kesshoin
- Hisako Manda - Aguri
- Seiichi Tanabe - Narisumi Makino
- Sei Hiraizumi - Narisada Makino
- Shohei Hino - Ryuko
- Mako Umehara
- Fumiki Yoshikawa - ep.5-6
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