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New Live-Action Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Series Reveals Yoshimune Arc's Main Cast
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the new live-action Ōoku: The Inner Chambers manga revealed the main cast for the series' Yoshimune arc on Thursday.
The new cast includes (from left to right in image above) Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Fujinami, SaiKano) as Kanō Hisamichi.
revealed the cast for the show's Iemitsu arc.
Yuki Saitō (right) plays Lady Kasuga.
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...
The series will premiere on NHK in January 2023. Yoshiko Morishita (live-action Tsunayoshi, Yoshimune, and Imperial Restoration arcs.
Yoshinaga launched the manga in recently, the Grand Prize in the 42nd Nihon SF Taishō Awards.
The manga has already Ōoku: Eien - Emonnosuke・Tsunayoshi Hen in December of the same year.
Sources: NHK, Comic Natalie
