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”
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, whi...
This is the story about the a very powerful Lady Kasuga who established Ooku the inner palace.
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not ju...
Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gang...
With an all-star cast led by Matsudaira Ken and Natsuyagi Isao, this exciting tale set in the afterm...
Monzaemon Chikamatsu is a middle-age dramatist of jōruri (form of puppet theater that preceded bunra...
Unokichi , the grandchild of Edo’s wealthiest merchant Mikuniya Tokuemon, becomes a constable in an ...
The story of the battles between the 3 related families Kishu, Mito, and Owari, as each vies for the...
The 40th NHK Taiga Drama is Hojo Tokimune. It tells the dramatic and turbulent life of young shikken...
The story takes place during the Muromachi period of Ancient Japan, in the midst of the Ōnin War. Th...
This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the late He...
On March 23, 1585, Japanese Christian envoys visited Pope Gregory XIII at the Papal Court in Rome, I...
The drama centers on Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power, overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate and event...
Focusing on the life of Nene, the good wife who supported Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the world of the Warri...
It depicts how the winner, the Satsuma Clan, and the loser, the Aizu Clan, survive through the Edo p...
Kaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels Tair...
The drama is depicting the life and times in 17th and 18th century Japan during the rule of the eigh...
Kōchiyama Sōshun serves as a cha-bōzu (He is kind of tea man) in the administrative headquarters of ...
Byakkotai was part of Aizu's four-unit military, set up in the domain's drive to finalize its milita...