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 (Kazunari Ninomiya) hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu (Maki Horikita), 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 (Kou Shibasaki) takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku.
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The Lady Shogun and Her Men Cast
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Character |
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Mitsuko Baisho
She was 63, now 77 years old
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as Yorinobu Mizuno |
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Maki Horikita
She was 21, now 35 years old
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as Onobu |
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Tsuyoshi Muro
He was 34, now 48 years old
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Kou Shibasaki
She was 29, now 42 years old
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as Yoshimune Tokugawa |
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Hiroshi Tamaki
He was 30, now 44 years old
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as Matsushima |
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Kazunari Ninomiya
He was 27, now 40 years old
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as Unoshin Mizuno |
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Terunosuke Takezai
He was 30, now 44 years old
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Kuranosuke Sasaki
He was 42, now 56 years old
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as Huzinami |
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Sadao Abe
He was 40, now 54 years old
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as Sugishita |
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Emi Wakui
She was 39, now 53 years old
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as Hisamichi Kanou |
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Yoshihiko Hosoda
He was 22, now 36 years old
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Aoi Nakamura
She was 19, now 33 years old
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as Kakiten |
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Tadayoshi Okura
He was 25, now 38 years old
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as Tsuroka |
The Lady Shogun and Her Men Crew
