**Ooku ~Tanjou (2012) EP01-10 END 720p + English Softsubs** - **Title:** Ooku ~Tanjou (also known as "Ooku: Arikoto Iemitsu Hen", "Ooku: The Inner Chamber", "Ooku 6") - **Native Title:** 大奥～誕生～［有功・家光篇］ - **Episodes:** 10 - **Broadcast Network:** TBS - **Release Date:** October 12 - Dec 14, 2012 - **English Softsubs** by: [**Heiwa Fansubs**](https://www.d-addicts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=120842) **Synopsis** In the Edo era during the reign of the third shogun, a mysterious smallpox epidemic affects males only, causing the number of males to plummet to one-fourth of the population. The roles of males and females are reversed. Women run businesses and politics. A young girl takes the seat as the heir of the shogunate and becomes the first female shogun. She is Tokugawa Iemitsu. When Iemitsu turns 16, the pure-hearted Madenokoji Arikoto, who heads a temple, is threatened and forced to return to secular life. Together with his disciple Gyokuei, he becomes one of the 3,000 handsome concubines that wait on the shogun in the inner palace. **Cast** - **Sakai Masato** as *Madenokouji Arikoto* - **Tabe Mikako** as *Tokugawa Iemitsu* - Tanaka Koki as *Gyokuei* - Hirayama Hiroyuki as *Inaba Masakatsu* - Danta Yasunori as *Matsudaira Nobutsuna* - Omi Toshinori as *Murase Masasuke*, *Narrator* - Aso Yumi as *Kasuga no Tsubone* - Minamisawa Nao as *Yuki* - Naito Takashi as *Sawamura Denemon* - Kubota Masataka as *Sutezo* - Kohinata Fumiyo as *Madenokouji Arizumi* - Shukugawa Atom as *Katsuta Yorihide* - Suruga Taro as *Myoukei* - Yamamoto Maika as *Nono* **Production Credits**
 - **Original Creator**: Yoshinaga Fumie (Manga *Ooku*) - **Screenwriter:** Kamiyama Yumiko - **Producers:** Isoyama Aki, Araki Miyako - **Directors:** Kaneko Fuminori, Fujie Yoshimasa, Akihiko Watase - **Music:** Yamamoto Kohta, MISIA **Awards & Recognition** - **75th Television Drama Academy Awards**: Best Supporting Actress - Tabe Mikako