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Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Manga Gets New Live-Action Series Next January

JIN) is penning the scripts for the show.

The series will primarily center on the Iemitsu, Tsunayoshi, Yoshimune, and Imperial Restoration arcs. NHK will begin revealing the cast for each arc in September.

The manga has already Ōoku: Eien - Emonnosuke・Tsunayoshi Hen in December of the same year.

Viz Media publishes the manga in English, and it describes the story:

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Red Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the Shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the Shogun's Inner Chamber...

Yoshinaga launched the manga in recently, the Grand Prize in the 42nd Nihon SF Taishō Awards.

Source: Comic Natalie