The Lady Shogun and Her Men
2010 · 116 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 467 VOTES · DIR. Fuminori Kaneko
Overview
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children. A young man named Unoshin Mizuno hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu, but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible. To raise his social status and also save his poor family, Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku (inner chambers of the Shugun's castle) and attempts to vie among 3,000 other men for the affection of the female shogun. What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful, but highly ambitious and conniving. In this environment, the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,126 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:43 The endemic that only men were affected
00:05:30 Of course not.
00:08:57 It's fine! You keep this.
00:12:21 How unusual
00:15:34 More importantly, I ought to break with my trifling lifestyle
00:21:20 I shall be entering into service as a page here.
00:24:45 Break this pledge...
00:27:22 I purposely wear my own topknot like this.
00:31:15 Watchmen doing the rounds!
00:36:43 Yes, sir.
00:42:24 It was a good match.
00:46:16 please do take care not to catch a cold, sir.
00:55:05 It has been decided that
00:58:42 it seems to me that that this is something only a lunatic will do.
01:02:28 Thus, the number of men continues to decline.
01:06:14 I have been elevated to the rank of cupbearers.
01:10:27 This is called "Evergreen Grove."
01:16:09 Yours too.
01:22:41 The Secret Swain?
01:25:55 Please say nothing more.
01:32:47 It's Yunoshin.
01:38:12 Yes.
01:47:51 I am not impressed, your Highness.
01:51:51 from now onwards, how shall I revive this country...