The 2010 film (also known as Ōoku ) is a live-action adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga’s award-winning manga. It presents a "gender-reversed" alternate history of 18th-century Edo-period Japan, where a mysterious plague called the "Red Pox" has decimated 75% of the male population. The Story and Plot The 2010 film (also known as Ōoku )

The Lady Shogun and Her Men (2010) - Plot - IMDb

The film features a star-studded cast of Japanese cinema and television veterans: The Lady Shogun and Her Men (2010) - Plot - IMDb

is the slow, painful process of yielding. Arikoto yields his priesthood. Yoshimune yields her loneliness. In one stunning sequence, he doesn't seduce her with poetry; he seduces her by telling her the brutal truth about her reign. In a world of sycophantic men, honesty becomes the ultimate aphrodisiac. Arikoto yields his priesthood

However, Lady Emiko was not one to back down. Raised in the art of bushido, equally skilled with a sword as she was in diplomacy, she embarked on a journey to consolidate her power. Gathering her most loyal samurai, men who had pledged their lives to her father and now to her, she set out to secure her position as the Lady Shogun.