Ōoku: The Inner Chambers

Fumi Yoshinaga’s hit manga Ōoku: The Inner Chambers will be adapted into an anime for the first time!

Inspired by the Ōoku, the historic women’s quarters of Edo Castle, this tale unravels the history of the inner chambers, where gender roles have been reversed.

A hit in Japan, the manga Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga has spawned adaptations across media including live-action drama series and films, and now this masterpiece is getting its first anime adaptation as a Netflix Series! Serving as director is Noriyuki Abe, who has helmed many popular anime works including The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Yu Yu Hakusho, and the Netflix Film The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh. A talented cast of leading voice actors has also come together for the project, including Mamoru Miyano, Eriko Matsui, Yuki Kaji, and Tomokazu Seki. Staying true to the original manga, this series will bring a new, animated vision of the Ōoku and express the struggles of the men and women living in the secretive inner chambers where gender roles are reversed.

Staff:

Based on the manga: Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga (published by Hakusensha/Melody)

Director: Noriyuki Abe

Series composition/Screenplay: Rika Takasugi

Character Design: Yoko Sato

Music: Kenji Kawai

Animation Production: Studio Deen

Developed and Produced by: Netflix

Cast:

Madenokoji Arikoto: Mamoru Miyano / Tokugawa Iemitsu: Eriko Matsui / Gyokuei: Yuki Kaji / Lady Kasuga: Kikuko Inoue / Sutezo: Jun Fukuyama

Mizuno Yunoshin: Tomokazu Seki / O-Nobu: Miyuki Satou / Tokugawa Yoshimune: Sanae Kobayashi

Narrator: Hitoshi Kubota

When a mysterious plague causes a rapid decline in the male population, the nation’s women are forced to take up the central roles of authority in Edo society. Curious as to why women take the names of men when succeeding the family line, Yoshimune, the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, consults an archive of the Ōoku called “The Chronicle of the Dying Day,” which goes back to the age of the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu. As she reads through it, Yoshimune begins to unravel the history of the inner chambers.