Ejima and Ikushima

The story

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.

Cast

C Chikage Awashima絵島 I Ichikawa Danjūrō XI生島新五郎 M Mitsuko Kusabue宇津 M Mieko Takamine月光院 K Kuniko Miyake天英院 I Ichikawa Sadanji III家宣 小 小林きよし家継 阪 阪東彦三郎紀州公吉宗 T Teiji Takahashi間部越前守 T Tatsuya Ishiguro新井白石 E Eijirō Yanagi土屋相模守 J Joji Kaieda秋本但馬守

See more cast

K Kōmei Minami安藤志摩守 A Akitake Kōno奥山好竹院 I Isao Yamagata山田宗円 Y Yatsuko Tan'ami宮路 K Kyōko Kusajima梅山 Y Yōko Kozono友音 高 高木悠子小のぶ S Sadako Sawamura玉椿 S Shōroku Onoe II市川団十郎 S Shigeru Onoe山中平九郎 尾 尾上菊蔵滝井半四郎 市 市川滝之亟藤村半太夫 R Ryōsuke Kagawa山村長太夫 H Hiroshi Aoyama清七 尾 尾上多賀之亟津賀屋善六 M Mitsuo Nagata後藤縫之助 K Kōji Mitsui岡本五郎右衛門 Y Yoshito Yamaji谷口新平 S Shinobu Araki老中 F Fujio Suga仙石 D Daisuke Katō井口 T Tomiemon Otomo吉宗の家臣 J Jinichi Amano津雲 R Rintarō Fujima阿部豊後守