Kind of Entertaining
7 / 10jdoramadotcom · 2012
GOU - HIMETACHI NO SENGOKU has the expected richness in costume design and set design - but since the story has a strong female point of view, there's no blood even on most violent sequences. (This was written by Kumiko Tabuchi, who also penned 2007's ATSUHIME.)
Juri Ueno won the title role as wife of Hidetada, the second Tokugawa shogun. On its release, this drama was widely criticized for historical gaffes and the casting of Ueno, who's clearly too old for the character. She excels at modern, comic roles - not necessarily with a story of the warring states; the intrusion of Western music and even power chord guitars detracts from the atmosphere.
This has a tendency to sink to melodrama, but it's a decent look at woman's role in old Japan.