Ooku: The Beginning (2012)
| First Air Date: | 2012, October 12 |
| Last Air Date: | 2012, December 14 |
| Status: | Ended |
| Seasons: | 1 |
| Episodes: | 10 |
| Episode Runtime: | 45 min |
| Countries: | Japan |
| Production: | TBS |
| Cast: | Takashi Naito, Toshinori Omi, Masato Sakai, Mikako Tabe, Hiroyuki Hirayama, Yasunori Danta, Nao Minamisawa, Koki Tanaka |
Overview:
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”