The Lady Shogun and Her Men (2010)

The Lady Shogun and Her Men is a live-action Japanese movie directed by Fuminori Kaneko and based on a manga by Fumi Yoshinaga.

Movie info

Original title: 大奥
Transliterated title: Ōoku
Release date: October 1, 2010
Distributed by: Shochiku
Asmik Ace Entertainment

Region A Blu-ray (English subtitles)
Label: CN Entertainment (Hong Kong)
Out: Jun 23, 2011
Buy: YesAsia US, YesAsia Global

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Plot

In an alternate version of Japan, a disease has drastically decreased the male population, turning the nation into a matriarchal society in which young men are treated as a precious commodity never to be risked in sports or war. Hiroyuki Mizuno is a commoner from a struggling samurai family who isn’t allowed to marry the woman he loves because he’s too poor to afford that right.

To earn money for his family, he decides to enter Ooku (the palace), where young men like him are simply added to a harem as a status symbol for the wealthy and powerful. Mizuno quickly establishes himself as someone not be be trifled with, setting himself apart from the other men. However, when the unmarried Yoshimune takes over as Shogun and chooses Mizuno as her first consort, a long-standing Ooku tradition threatens to cut their relationship very short.

Featured Cast

Actor		Role
	Kazunari Ninomiya	Hiroyuki Mizuno
	Kou Shibasaki	Yoshimune, The Shogun
	Aoi Nakamura	Emi Wakui
	Hiroshi Tamaki
	Kuranosuke Sasaki
	Maki Horikita
	Mitsuko Baisho
	Muga Takewaki
	Sadao Abe
	Tadayoshi Okura

Latest news

Rest of “Ooku” cast announced

Back in December, it was announced that a new film adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku manga was in the works and that it would star Kou Shibasaki and Arashi’s Kazunari Ninomiya in the two lead...

6 years ago