Ōoku (1983 TV series)

*Ōoku*
Ōoku
Genre	Jidaigeki
Written by	Takayuki Yamada
Directed by	Junji Kurata
Starring	Komaki Kurihara ; Keiko Tsushima; Tomisaburo Wakayama ; Katsuo Nakamura ; Haruko Kato ; Masaya Oki ; Ryoko Sakaguchi; Misako Konno ; Chikage Awashima ; Kenici Kaneda; Mieko Takamine ; Yoshiko Tanaka ; Mitsuko Kusabue ; Masahiko Tsugawa ; Shigeru Tsuyuguchi; Yoko Tsukasa ; Meiko Kaji ; Tetsuro Tamba
Theme music composer	Takeo Watanabe
Ending theme	"Aio no Makugire" was sung by Ryoko Moriyama
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	51
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Production companies	Toei,Kansai TV
Original release
Release	April 5, 1983 –; March 27, 1984

Ōoku (大奥) is a 1983 Japanese Jidaigeki television series. The story is set in whole Edo period in Ōoku and is fiction set against a background of historical fact.^[1]^[2] The Ōoku was where thousands of women work for one Tokugawa shogun and the part the ladies lived in Edo Castle.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Cast[edit]

Tokugawa shogun and people of Ōoku[edit]

Komaki Kurihara as Oeyo (episode1-3,50,51)
Tomisaburo Wakayama as Tokugawa Ieyasu (episode1-2)
Katsuo Nakamura as Tokugawa Hidetada (episode1-3,8)
Masaya Oki as Tokugawa Iemitsu (episode3-8,10,11,13)^[6]
Naoko Otani / Misako Watanabe as Lady Kasuga
Mieko Takamine as Sosinni
Haruko Kato as Senhime (episode14-16)
Mitsuko Kusabue as Asukai (episode14-16)
Ken Tanaka as Tokugawa Ietsuna (episode14-16)
Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (episode18-20,22,23,25,26)
Yoko Tsukasa as Nobuko (episode18,19,21,-23,25,26)
Meiko Kaji as Uemonnosuke no Tsubone (episode22.23)
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Tokugawa Ienobu (episode26-29)
Ayumi Ishida / Kyoko Enami as Gekkoin
Isuzu Yamada as Yuri (episode33,34)
Takeshi Kaga as Tokugawa Yoshimune (episode31-37,39)
Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Tokugawa Ieharu
Tetsuro Tamba as Tokugawa Ienari (episode43)
Gaku Yamamoto as Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Others[edit]

Akiko Koyama as Yodo-dono (episode1)
Kenichi Kaneda as Tokugawa Tadanaga
Eitaro Ozawa as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
Mikijiro Hira as Matsudaira Nobutsuna (episode14)
Shigeru Kōyama as Sakai Tadakiyo (episode18)
Takahiro Tamura as Makino Narisada (episode20)
Akira Kume as Ando Tsushima
Teruhiko Aoi (episode18,19,22,25,26)
So Yamamura as Arai Hakuseki(episode27-29)
Shigeru Amachi as Manabe Akifusa (episode27,28, 31-34)
Yoshio Inaba as Arima Ujinori (episode37)
Kojiro Hongo as Ōoka Tadasuke (episode39)
Teruhiko Saigo as Abe Masahiro (episode45)
Asao Koike as Ii Naosuke
Hiroki Matsukata as Kirino Toshiaki (episode50,51)

Fictional Characters[edit]

Keiko Takahashi as Ohatsu
Yōko Nogiwa as Otowa (episode17)
Misako Tanaka as Okin
Kantaro Suga as Sekine Rokubei
Mieko Harada as Takigawa
Kumi Mizuno as Sakon (episode38)
Shinjirō Ehara as Yamauchi Iganosuke
Hiroshi Koizumi (episode46)
Renji Ishibashi as Ginzo (episode46)
Yutaka Nakajima as Awashima (episode50,51)

References[edit]

^ 大奥　ゴールデンカラーアクション14　双葉社　P.51-61
^ "大奥 1983". AG. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
^ "大奥". ドラマデータ. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
^ "大奥". 東映チャンネル. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
^ "大奥". kotobank. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
^ "60年の騒然男女」芸能スキャンダルの真相". ASAGEI. Retrieved March 15, 2019.

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[1] 大奥　ゴールデンカラーアクション14　双葉社　P.51-61

[2] "大奥 1983". AG. Retrieved March 15, 2019.

[3] "大奥". ドラマデータ. Retrieved March 15, 2019.

[4] "大奥". 東映チャンネル. Retrieved March 15, 2019.

[5] "大奥". kotobank. Retrieved March 15, 2020.

[6] "60年の騒然男女」芸能スキャンダルの真相". ASAGEI. Retrieved March 15, 2019.

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