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The Tempest

2011 · 1 season

A slow-burning historical drama of quiet tension and careful disguise, where every glance carries the weight of a secret.

Genres
Drama
Overview
Set in the Ryukyu Kingdom during the latter days of the Tokugawa shogunate, a woman takes the guise of a Eunuch to pass a government examination. She eventually becomes a government official still in the disguise of a man.

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • gender
  • power
  • politics
  • class
Places
  • single country house
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama
Created by
Eiji Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Yoshimura
Written by
Daisuke Habara
Starring
Yukie Nakama, Shosuke Tanihara, Takashi Tsukamoto, Eiji Okuda, Saki Takaoka, Shota Sometani, GACKT, Kaoru Yachigusa
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 73 min each
Network
NHK G
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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