Ejima and Ikushima
絵島生島
Ejima and Ikushima at SFlix. 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.
- Genre: Drama
- Country: Japan
- Director: Hideo Ōba
- Cast: Chikage Awashima, Ichikawa Danjūrō XI, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mieko Takamine, Kuniko Miyake, Ichikawa Sadanji III, 小林きよし, 阪東彦三郎, Teiji Takahashi, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Eijirō Yanagi, Joji Kaieda, Kōmei Minami, Akitake Kōno, Isao Yamagata, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Kyōko Kusajima, Yōko Kozono, 高木悠子, Sadako Sawamura, Shōroku Onoe II,
