Ōoku (1983 TV series)

Japanese TV series

Japanese TV series or program

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
Release
Original release| April 5, 1983 (1983-04-05) –
March 27, 1984 (1984-03-27)

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]

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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