The Lady Shogun and Her Men

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2010 / 116min.

Rating5.8

Genres

Science Fiction

Drama

History

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Fuminori Kaneko

Actors

Terunosuke Takezai

Muga Takewaki

Sadao Abe

Maki Horikita

Emi Wakui

Ko Shibasaki

Kazunari Ninomiya

Tsuyoshi Muro

Yoshihiko Hosoda

Mitsuko Baisho

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