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Summary

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.

Details

Release Date: October 1, 2010

Runtime: 116 minutes

Genres: Science Fiction, Drama, History

Rating: 6.1/10 (15 votes)


Ooku: The Inner Chambers

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Cast

  • Kazunari Ninomiya

    Kazunari Ninomiya

    Unoshin Mizuno

  • Ko Shibasaki

    Ko Shibasaki

    Yoshimune Tokugawa

  • Maki Horikita

    Maki Horikita

    Onobu

  • Tadayoshi Okura

    Tadayoshi Okura

    Tsuroka

  • Aoi Nakamura

    Aoi Nakamura

    Kakiten

  • Hiroshi Tamaki

    Hiroshi Tamaki

    Matsushima

  • Mitsuko Baisho

    Mitsuko Baisho

    Yorinobu Mizuno

  • Emi Wakui

    Emi Wakui

    Hisamichi Kanou

  • Sadawo Abe

    Sadawo Abe

    Sugishita

  • Kuranosuke Sasaki

    Kuranosuke Sasaki

    Huzinami

  • Muga Takewaki

    Muga Takewaki

  • Yoshihiko Hosoda

    Yoshihiko Hosoda

  • Terunosuke Takezai

    Terunosuke Takezai

  • Shota Matsushima

    Shota Matsushima

  • Tsuyoshi Muro

    Tsuyoshi Muro

  • Kozue Ueda

    Kozue Ueda

  • Mieko Hoshino

    Mieko Hoshino

  • Emiko Miyazaki

    Emiko Miyazaki

  • Yukari Okumura

    Yukari Okumura

  • Kazuki Miki

    Kazuki Miki