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Ooku: The Inner Chambers

2023 · 2 seasons

A stately, quietly aching costume drama where courtly intrigue and forbidden longing unfold in hushed, deliberate rhythms.

Genres
Drama
Overview
In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the vacant jobs, therefore changing the social structure. Now, 80 years after the initial outbreak with a 1:4 male:female ratio, Japan is a completely matriarchal society. Females hold all important political positions, and males are their consorts. Only the most powerful female—head of Tokugawa shogunate—may keep a harem of handsome and unproductive males, known as "Ōoku".

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • gender
  • love
  • isolation
  • identity
Places
  • single country house
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism6
Romance6
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama
Written by
Yoshiko Morishita
Starring
Yuto Nakajima, Shunsuke Kazama, Sei Shiraishi, Renji Ishibashi, Ai Tominaga, Shihori Kanjiya, Ainosuke Kataoka, Atsushi Hashimoto
Music
Kohta Yamamoto
Length
2 seasons, 21 episodes, 45 min each
Network
NHK G, NHK
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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