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Benio Hanamura is a 17-year-old schoolgirl in Tokyo during the Taisho era. Benio lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy—contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions, and isn't as interested in housewife duties as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love. Benio's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Benio but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms.

Cast

Ichiro Nagai ナレーション Reiko Suzuki ばあや Atsuko Mine 伊集院夫人 Katsuji Mori 伊集院忍 Kohei Miyauchi 伯爵

Reiko Yamada 侍女如月

Rihoko Yoshida 北小路環 Kazuko Sugiyama 森蘭丸 Hiroshi Masuoka 牛五郎 Keiko Yokozawa 花村紅緒 Kaneta Kimotsuki 酒乱童子 Makio Inoue 青江冬星

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