is a Japanese historic

romantic drama Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...

film released on December 23, 2006, by

Fuji Television JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as or , is a Japanese television station that serves the Kantō region as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). The station is owned-and- ...

. The film revolves around the

Ejima-Ikushima affair The {{nihongo, Ejima-Ikushima affair, 江島生島事件, Ejima Ikushima jiken was the most significant scandal in the Ōoku, the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa shōgun's harem during the Edo period of the history of Japan, that occurred in Februar ...

of 1714. Director Tōru Hayashi and screenplay writer Taeko Asano also directed and wrote the 2003~2005 television series of the same name on the

. The theme song, '' Unmei'', was written and sang by

Kumi Koda , known professionally as , is a Japanese singer from Kyoto, known for her urban and R&B songs. After debuting with the single " Take Back" in December 2000, Koda gained fame in March 2003 when the songs from her seventh single, " Real Emoti ...

Cast

Yukie Nakama is a Japanese actress, singer and former idol. Biography She was born in Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan, into a fisherman's family, the youngest of five siblings. At the start of her career she was a gravure idol and singer (her debut single "Moonli ...

as Ejima * Hidetoshi Nishijima as Ikushima Shingorō * Haruka Igawa as Gekkō-in * Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Manabe Akifusa * Kaoru Sugita as Miyaji * Shinobu Nakayama as Fujikawa * Tae Kimura as Hōshin-in *

Yumi Asō , better known by the stage name , is a Japanese actress. She is a niece of singer Chiyo Okumura. Biography She was born in Osaka Prefecture but grew up in Nagasaki Prefecture. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. She appeared in Yōj ...

as Kohagi * Kaori Yamaguchi as Yoshino * Hirotarō Honda as

Arai Hakuseki was a Confucianist, scholar-bureaucrat, academic, administrator, writer and politician in Japan during the middle of the Edo period, who advised the ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Ienobu. His personal name was Kinmi or Kimiyoshi (君美). Hakuseki (白� ...

* Shōhei Hino as Doctor Okuyama * Yuki Matsushita as Renjō-in *

Yūko Asano is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for '' Kura''. Her biggest hit was "Sexy Bus Stop" released in 1976. It reached the No. 12 position on the Oricon chart list. Filmography Fi ...

as Takigawa * Reiko Takashima as Ten'ei-in

References

External links

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English Subtitled Trailer
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