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Ōoku: Arikoto・Iemitsu Hen television drama based on the same manga ends.
The second film adaptation and television drama were both Tsunayoshi Tokugawa.
The second television drama, titled Ōoku: Arikoto・Iemitsu Hen, premiered on October 12. The drama covered volumes 2-4 of the manga. Sakai played Arikoto, the monk turned Ōoku member, and Kimi ni Todoke's Sawako) played the female shogun Iemitsu Tokugawa.
Ikebukuro West Gate Park television series, returned to direct both the drama and the second film, and Minako Kamiyama handled the scripts.
The manga already Dororo, Sekai no Chūshin de, Ai wo Sakebu) played Shogun Yoshimune herself.
The historical science fiction story takes place in an alternate-history version of medieval Japan, in which a bizarre disease has dwindled the male population. This has led to a matriarchal society where women outnumber men by 4 to 1. The shogun and de facto ruler of Japan keeps her own harem of men, or Ōoku.
won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009.
