The new Japanese crime thriller House of the Owl is set for its US and global premiere, giving viewers a new story to pivot to on Hulu/Disney+ following today’s finale of Shōgun.
Set in modern-day Japan, House of the Owl centers on a father, his youngest son, and their opposite approaches to work and life. It stars Min Tanaka (The Twilight Samurai, Perfect Days, 47 Ronin) and Mackenyu (One Piece, Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part I – The Final, Pacific Rim: Uprising).
Known as “The Owl,” Ryutaro Ogami (Min Tanaka) is Japan’s most powerful kuromaku, a power broker and fixer who has guided politicians and heads of business through some of Japan’s biggest scandals and sensational events — sometimes by covering them up, at other times by allowing them to be exposed to the public, but always through working behind the scenes. Now, though, Ryutaro is faced with a much more daunting challenge: fixing his own family, his ultimate legacy, and the rising ambitions of his youngest and most idealistic son, Ryu (Mackenyu).
Ryu is his father’s opposite. His context for everything is different, thus giving Ryu an approach that has him following a more proper, correct path to bring about justice.
When the son of a candidate for prime minister, the latter of whom has close ties with the Ogami family, dies under mysterious circumstances, the patriarch and his scion take on a great evil in the political world in their own ways: Ryutaro from behind the scenes and Ryu from out front.
House of the Owl, a Hulu Original, premieres in the US with the first five episodes tomorrow, Wednesday, April 24, exclusively on Hulu, followed by Episodes 6 and 7 on Wednesday, May 1, and the final three episodes on Wednesday, May 8. The series will debut internationally according to the same schedule on Disney+.
Costars in the ten-episode drama include Hisako Manda (Here Comes the Morning) as Kyoko Ogami, Ryutaro’s wife and mother to their four children; Masanobu Ando (Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part II – The Beginning) as eldest son Ichiro Ogami, a businessman and an admirer of his father’s power and presence; Kyoko Hasegawa (Fishbowl Wives) as eldest daughter Yumiko Ogami, a housewife raising two children; Seinagi Nakata (Meet Me After School) as youngest daughter Risako Ogami, who dreams of becoming a singer and artist; Mieko Harada (Mozart in the Jungle) as Prime Minister Shiori Watanabe; and Masatoshi Nakamura (Emperor) as Soyaku Takeuchi, the secretary general of the Liberal Party and the leading candidate for the next prime minister.
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