Ooku: The Beginning(2012)

series - first aired/released 2012-10-12 - audience 3.5

Drama

Directed by Fuminori Kaneko, Yoshimasa Fujie

During the reign of the shogun, Iemitsu, an epidemic causes the population of men to greatly drop, leading to an ooku where the role of men and women are reversed. Thus, “the women become the shogun, served by 3000 handsome men”