Ooku

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Details

  • Title: 大奥
  • Title (romaji): Ooku / Oh-oku
  • Also known as: The Inner Palace
  • Format: Renzoku, across five seasons
  • Genre: Historical
  • Broadcast network: Fuji TV
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Season 1

  • Episodes: 52
  • Broadcast period: 1968-Apr-06 to 1969-Mar-29
  • Air time: Saturday 22:30-23:25
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Cast

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Season 2

  • Episodes: 51
  • Broadcast period: 1983-Apr-05 to 1984-Mar-27
  • Air time: Tuesday 22:00-22:54
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Cast

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Season 3

Ooku Season 3
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Ooku Season 3
  • Episodes: 11 + 2 Specials
  • Viewership ratings: 14.2
  • Broadcast period: 2003-Jun-03 to 2003-Aug-19, 2003-Sept-02, 2004-Mar-26
  • Air time: Tuesday 20:00, Tuesday 20:00-20:54, Friday 21:00-23:54
  • Theme song: I Say A Little Prayer by kazami
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Synopsis

"Ooku" is the story of the picturesque lives of the women living in the hidden, maze-like inner structure of Edo Castle. Inside, the women wielded their beauty and knowledge: some of them to win the Shogun's love, obtain political power, or to climb the ladder of the Ooku hierarchy. Their lives were filled with romance, hatred, anger, envy, tears, and persecution. Of the three-century history of the Tokugawa Ooku, this drama focuses on the last several years. It tells the story of the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Ooku, and also the lives of the women who lived through these times. --Fuji TV

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Cast

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Correlation chart

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Season 4

  • Tagline: 第一章 / Dai-isho
  • Tagline (English): Episode One
  • Episodes: 11 + 1 Special
  • Viewership ratings: 17.6
  • Broadcast period: 2004-Oct-07 to 2004-Dec-16, 2005-Apr-08
  • Air time: Thursday 22:00, Friday 21:00-23:24
  • Theme song: Ai to yokubou no hibi by Southern All Stars
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Synopsis

For the forth session in the Ooku series, it revolves around the era of the 3rd Shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, and the birth of the Ooku. Iemitsu was brought up by his nanny, O-fuku, while his younger brother Tadanaga was brought up by their birth mother, who's the Shogun's wife. From when he was a young boy, his mother and his nanny both were at loggerheads, as each wanted to ensure their young charge succeed their father as the next Shogun. From childhood to adulthood, the series retells interesting happenings revolving around Iemitsu's rise to power.

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Episode Ratings

  • Ep 01: 16.6%
  • Ep 02: 16.3%
  • Ep 03: 19.1%
  • Ep 04: 16.6%
  • Ep 05: 19.4%
  • Ep 06: 17.6%
  • Ep 07: 15.2%
  • Ep 08: 17.8%
  • Ep 09: 18.2%
  • Ep 10: 15.8%
  • Ep 11: 20.3%
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Season 5

Ooku ~Hana no Ran~
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Ooku ~Hana no Ran~
  • Tagline: 華の乱 / Hana no Ran
  • Tagline (English): War of the Belles
  • Episodes: 10, 1 Special
  • Viewership ratings: 15.67, SP=12.0
  • Broadcast period: 2005-Oct-13 to 2005-Dec-22, 2005-Dec-30
  • Air time: Thursday 22:00, Friday 21:00
  • Theme song: Shuraba by Tokyo Jihen
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Synopsis

Depicts the grand battles of the women surrounding Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun.

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Cast

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Correation chart
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Production Credits

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Episode Ratings

  • Ep 01: 14.5%
  • Ep 02: 18.0%
  • Ep 03: 14.5%
  • Ep 04: 15.5%
  • Ep 05: 17.0%
  • Ep 06: 16.2%
  • Ep 07: 14.6%
  • Ep 08: 15.4%
  • Ep 09: 16.0%
  • Ep 10: 15.0%
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Trivia

  • A movie version of Oh-oku starring Nakama Yukie opened in Japan on 23-Dec-2006.
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External Links


Summer 2004 Season 4 Winter 2005
Ningen no Shomei Thursday 22:00 Yasashii Jikan


Summer 2005 Season 5 Winter 2006
Densha Otoko Thursday 22:00 Kobayakawa Nobuki no Koi
Retrieved from "http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Ooku"

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