The Tiger and Her Wings

is a Japanese television drama series and the 110th Asadora series, following Boogie Woogie. The drama is modeled after one of Japan's first female lawyers, Yoshiko Mibuchi, but it is produced as fiction and is an original drama work.

Plot

The story begins in the 1930s. Tomoko Inotsume is striving to become an unprecedented female lawyer in Japan by dedicating herself to her studies. However, she faces the obstacles of Japan's laws and society, which often disregard women.

Cast

Inotsume's family

• Sairi Ito as Tomoko Inotsume
• Yuriko Ishida as Haru Inotsume, Tomoko's mother
• Takashi Okabe as Naokoto Inotsume, Tomoko's father
• ShÅ«saku Kamikawa as Naomichi Inotsume, Tomoko's older brother
• Ryoki Miyama (Be First) as Naoaki Inotsume, Tomoko's younger brother
• Misato Morita as Hanae Inotsume (née Yonetani), Naomichi's wife
• Taiga Nakano as YÅ«zō Sada, Tomoko's husband
• Asuka Kawatoko as Yumi Sada, Tomoko and YÅ«zō's daughter
• Nono Maida as young Yumi

Meiritsu University

• Shiori Doi as Yone Yamada
• Ikoi Hayase as young Yone
• Yuki Sakurai as Ryōko Sakuragawa
• Kami Hiraiwa as Umeko Ōba
• Kyoya Honda as Kosaburo Ōba, Umeko's third son
• Ha Yeon-soo as Choi Hyang-suk (Sai Kou-shuku) → Kyoko Shiomi
• Ryoko Kobayashi as Satoko Kubota
• Wako Ando as Chiharu Nakayama
• Junki Tozuka as Taichi Todoroki
• Takanori Iwata as Satoru Hanaoka

Yonetani's family

• Mariko Akama as Nobuko Yonetani, Hanae's mother
• Etsuo Yokobori as Shin'ichi Yonetani, Hanae's father
• Mayumi Tanaka as Ine

Sakuragawa's family

• Mariko Tsutsui as Hisako Sakuragawa, Ryōko's mother
• Ikuji Nakamura as YÅ«jirō Sakuragawa, Ryōko's father
• Nagi Hasegawa as Tama

Kōichi's family

• Masaki Okada as Kōichi Hoshi, Tomoko's second husband
• Mitsuru Hirata as Tomohiko Hoshi, Kōichi's father. He is modeled after Tadahiko Mibuchi.
• Kimiko Yo as Yuri Hoshi
• Yuki Inoue as Tomokazu Hoshi
• Ichika Osaki as Nodoka Hoshi

Others

• Kaoru Kobayashi as Shigechika Hodaka. He is modeled after Shigetō Hozumi, a grandson of Eiichi Shibusawa.
• Kenichi Matsuyama as Tōichirō Katsuraba
• Kinari Hirano as Kei Shiomi, Kyoko's husband
• Ikki Sawamura as Yoriyasu Kudō
• Kenichi Takitō as Kōshirō Takigawa
• Yōji Tanaka as Sasayama
• Tsutomu Takahashi as Jirō Takenaka
• Muga Tsukaji as Rokurō Unno
• Hideo Kurihara as Tanaka, a chief judge
• Hiroaki Hirata as Takei, a chief judge
• Jirō (Sissonne) as a lawyer
• Shinobu Hasegawa (Sissonne) as a lawyer
• YÅ«suke Hirayama as Masuno
• Kohji Moritsugu as Mizunuma
• Bin Furuya as Takekichi Wakashima
• Tsutomu Isobe as Rikitaro Nishikida, a lawyer
• Keisuke Horibe as Hiwada, a prosecutor
• Machiko Washio as Tsune Ōba
• Katsumi Takahashi as Tarō Sugita
• Kenichi Ogata as Shigeta　
• Katsumi Kiba as Morihiko Jinbo
• Naruki Matsukawa as YÅ«ji Inagaki
• Blake Crawford as Albert Horner
• Rinko Kikuchi as Ritsuko Ibarada, a singer
• Karen Miyama as Hitomi Fukuda
• Ayumu Mochizuki as YÅ«zaburō Takase
• Miou Tanaka as Tadayoshi Ichiyanagi
• Soma Santoki as Toshio Motoki
• YÅ«ta Hayashi as Hajime Mizukami
• Rin Kataoka as Misae Moriguchi and her daughter Miyuki
• Masato Wada as Tokio Endō
• Miho Watanabe as Mariko Akiyama
• Akana Ikeda as Kaoru Shiomi, Kei and Kyoko's daughter

Music

On April 1, 2024, it was announced that "Sayonara, Mata Itsuka!" by Kenshi Yonezu would be released on April 8 as the theme song for the series. Stuart Murdoch, who leads Belle and Sebastian, sang the insert song “You are so amazing” in the drama.

TV schedule

Notes

References

External links

• Official website