The Tiger and Her Wings

The Tiger and Her Wings (虎に翼) is a Japanese television drama series and the 110th Asadora series, following Boogie Woogie. The drama is modeled after one of Japan's first female lawyers, Yoshiko Mibuchi, but it is produced as fiction and is an original drama work.

Plot
The story begins in the 1930s. Tomoko Inotsume is striving to become an unprecedented female lawyer in Japan by dedicating herself to her studies. However, she faces the obstacles of Japan's laws and society, which often disregard women.

Inotsume's family

 * Sairi Ito as Tomoko Inotsume
 * Yuriko Ishida as Haru Inotsume, Tomoko's mother
 * Takashi Okabe as Naokoto Inotsume, Tomoko's father
 * Shūsaku Kamikawa as Naomichi Inotsume, Tomoko's older brother
 * Ryoki Miyama (Be First) as Naoaki Inotsume, Tomoko's younger brother
 * Misato Morita as Hanae Inotsume (née Yonetani), Naomichi's wife
 * Taiga Nakano as Yūzō Sada, Tomoko's husband

Meiritsu University

 * Shiori Doi as Yone Yamada
 * Ikoi Hayase as young Yone
 * Yuki Sakurai as Ryōko Sakuragawa
 * Kami Hiraiwa as Umeko Ōba
 * Ha Yeon-soo as Choi Hyang-suk (Sai Kou-shuku)
 * Ryoko Kobayashi as Satoko Kubota
 * Wako Ando as Chiharu Nakayama
 * Junki Tozuka as Taichi Todoroki
 * Takanori Iwata as Satoru Hanaoka

Yonetani's family

 * Mariko Akama as Nobuko Yonetani, Hanae's mother
 * Etsuo Yokobori as Shin'ichi Yonetani, Hanae's father
 * Mayumi Tanaka as Ine

Sakuragawa's family

 * Mariko Tsutsui as Hisako Sakuragawa, Ryōko's mother
 * Ikuji Nakamura as Yūjirō Sakuragawa, Ryōko's father
 * Nagi Hasegawa as Tama

Others

 * Kaoru Kobayashi as Shigechika Hodaka. He is modeled after Shigetō Hozumi, a grandson of Eiichi Shibusawa.
 * Kenichi Matsuyama as Tōichirō Katsuraba
 * Masaki Okada as Kōichi Hoshi
 * Mitsuru Hirata as Tomohiko Hoshi, Kōichi's father
 * Kinari Hirano as Kei Shiomi
 * Ikki Sawamura as Yoriyasu Kudō
 * Kenichi Takitō as Kōshirō Takigawa
 * Yōji Tanaka as Sasayama
 * Tsutomu Takahashi as Jirō Takenaka
 * Muga Tsukaji as Rokurō Unno
 * Hideo Kurihara as Tanaka, a chief judge
 * Hiroaki Hirata as Takei, a chief judge
 * Jirō (Sissonne) as a lawyer
 * Shinobu Hasegawa (Sissonne) as a lawyer
 * Yūsuke Hirayama as Masuno
 * Kohji Moritsugu as Mizunuma
 * Bin Furuya as Takekichi Wakashima
 * Tsutomu Isobe as Rikitaro Nishikida, a lawyer
 * Keisuke Horibe as Hiwada, a prosecutor
 * Machiko Washio as Tsune Ōba
 * Katsumi Takahashi as Tarō Sugita
 * Kenichi Ogata as Shigeta
 * Katsumi Kiba as Morihiko Jinbo
 * Naruki Matsukawa as Yūji Inagaki
 * Blake Crawford as Albert Horner
 * Rinko Kikuchi as Ritsuko Ibarada, a singer
 * Karen Miyama as Hitomi Fukuda
 * Ayumu Mochizuki as Yūzaburō Takase

Music
On April 1, 2024, it was announced that "Sayonara, Mata Itsuka!" by Kenshi Yonezu would be released on April 8 as the theme song for the series.