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New Live-Action Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Series Reveals 4 Additional Cast , Video
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Key visual unveiled for January 10 series
The official Asami Kiyokawa:
ドラマ10「大奥」の公式Twitterが 本日よりスタート!✒番組関連のお知らせ ✒収録中のオフショット ✒シーンのメイキング ✒予告動画
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そして!このあと12時! キービジュアルを公開!
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#大奥 #ドラマ10大奥 #1月10日放送開始(@nhk_oooku)December 18
The newly announced cast includes:
- Sei Shiraishi as Oshin
- Atsushi Hashimoto as Matsushima
- Yūki Inoue as Kashiwagi
- Renji Ishibashi as Masasuke Murase
The series will premiere on perform the theme song "Tanpopo" (Dandelion).
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.
The manga has already Ōoku: Eien - Emonnosuke・Tsunayoshi Hen in December of the same year.
Sources: Ōoku: The Inner Chambers series' Twitter , Comic Natalie