The Tiger and Her Wings

In the early Showa era, Japan’s first women’s law school opens, and the protagonist, Inotsume Tomoko, gains nationwide attention as one of the first female lawyers in the country. However, after facing wartime Japan’s harsh realities and losing everything, she becomes a judge with her legal knowledge and dedicates herself to establishing the family court. She stands passionately for the hardships that politics and economics cannot solve.

★ 8.3/10 · 3 TMDB audience ratings

Starring

• Sairi ItoTomoko Inotsume
• Yuriko IshidaHaru Inotsume
• Takashi OkabeNaokoto Inotsume
• Taiga Nakano佐田优三
• Misato Morita米谷花江/猪爪花江
• Machiko Ono旁白
• Kaoru Kobayashi穗高重亲
• Kenichi Matsuyama桂场等一郎

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