The Lady Shogun and Her Men
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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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Part of Ooku: The Inner Chambers
2 films
Cast
41 people
Kazunari Ninomiya
Unoshin Mizuno
Known for
Letters from Iwo Jima
Exit 8
Ko Shibasaki
Yoshimune Tokugawa
Known for
47 Ronin
The Boy and the Heron
Fuminori Kaneko
Miyako Araki
Tokushô Kikumura
Fumi Yoshinaga
Maki Horikita
Onobu
Known for
One Missed Call 3: Final
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
Natsuko Takahashi
Kazuya Hamana
Shigeki Matsuo
Tadayoshi Okura
Tsuroka
Also in
コメットさん
The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese
Akira Isoyama
Fuminori Kaneko Director · Natsuko Takahashi Screenplay Fumi Yoshinaga Author
Worldwide gross $35M · Budget $13M · First release October 1, 2010
Box office
Budget
$12,800,000
Worldwide gross
$34,597,898
Gross vs. budget
2.7×
Production
TBS
Production
MBS
Production
J Storm
Production
Chubu-nippon Broadcasting Company
Production
Asmik Ace Entertainment
Production
CBC (JP)
Production
Asmik Ace
Production
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Production
Yahoo Japan
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
大奥 男女逆転
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · October 1, 2010
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Australia
November 20, 2011 · Sydney Japanese Film Festival
Italy
May 1, 2011 · Udine Far East Festival
Taiwan
December 18, 2010
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