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.

★ 8.5/10 · 4 TMDB audience ratings

Starring

• Sairi ItoInotsume Tomoko
• Yuriko IshidaInotsume Haru
• Takashi OkabeInotsume Naokoto
• Taiga NakanoSada Yuzo
• Misato MoritaHanae Inotsume
• Machiko OnoNarration (voice)
• Kaoru KobayashiHodaka Shigechika
• Kenichi MatsuyamaKatsuraba Toichiro

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