The Tiger and Her Wings (虎に翼, Tora ni Tsubasa) 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.
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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
Shūsaku 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 Yūzō Sada, Tomoko's husband
Asuka Kawatoko as Yumi Sada, Tomoko and Yūzō'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 Yūjirō 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
Yūsuke 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
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.