Ōoku (1983 TV series)

Ōoku (大奥) is a 1983 Japanese Jidaigeki television series.

Background
The story is set in whole Edo period in Ōoku and is fiction set against a background of historical fact.

The Ōoku was where thousands of women work for one Tokugawa shogun and the part the ladies lived in Edo Castle.

Tokugawa shogun and people of Ōoku

 * Komaki Kurihara as Oeyo (episode1-3,50,51)
 * Tomisaburo Wakayama as Tokugawa Ieyasu (episode1-2)
 * Katsuo Nakamura as Tokugawa Hidetada (episode1-3,8)
 * Masaya Oki as Tokugawa Iemitsu (episode3-8,10,11,13)
 * Naoko Otani / Misako Watanabe as Lady Kasuga
 * Mieko Takamine as Sosinni
 * Haruko Kato as Senhime (episode14-16)
 * Mitsuko Kusabue as Asukai (episode14-16)
 * Ken Tanaka as Tokugawa Ietsuna (episode14-16)
 * Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (episode18-20,22,23,25,26)
 * Yoko Tsukasa as Nobuko (episode18,19,21,-23,25,26)
 * Meiko Kaji as Uemonnosuke no Tsubone (episode22.23)
 * Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Tokugawa Ienobu (episode26-29)
 * Ayumi Ishida / Kyoko Enami as Gekkoin
 * Isuzu Yamada as Yuri (episode33,34)
 * Takeshi Kaga as Tokugawa Yoshimune (episode31-37,39)
 * Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Tokugawa Ieharu
 * Tetsuro Tamba as Tokugawa Ienari (episode43)
 * Gaku Yamamoto as Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Others

 * Akiko Koyama as Yodo-dono (episode1)
 * Kenichi Kaneda as Tokugawa Tadanaga
 * Eitaro Ozawa as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
 * Mikijiro Hira as Matsudaira Nobutsuna (episode14)
 * Shigeru Kōyama as Sakai Tadakiyo (episode18)
 * Takahiro Tamura as Makino Narisada (episode20)
 * Akira Kume as Ando Tsushima
 * Teruhiko Aoi (episode18,19,22,25,26)
 * So Yamamura as Arai Hakuseki(episode27-29)
 * Shigeru Amachi as Manabe Akifusa (episode27,28, 31-34)
 * Yoshio Inaba as Arima Ujinori (episode37)
 * Kojiro Hongo as Ōoka Tadasuke (episode39)
 * Teruhiko Saigo as Abe Masahiro (episode45)
 * Asao Koike as Ii Naosuke
 * Hiroki Matsukata as Kirino Toshiaki (episode50,51)

Fictional characters

 * Keiko Takahashi as Ohatsu
 * Yōko Nogiwa as Otowa (episode17)
 * Misako Tanaka as Okin
 * Kantaro Suga as Sekine Rokubei
 * Mieko Harada as Takigawa
 * Kumi Mizuno as Sakon (episode38)
 * Shinjirō Ehara as Yamauchi Iganosuke
 * Hiroshi Koizumi (episode46)
 * Renji Ishibashi as Ginzo (episode46)
 * Yutaka Nakajima as Awashima (episode50,51)