# The Tiger and Her Wings

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.

## 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
* 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
* Naruki Matsukawa as Yūji Inagaki
* Blake Crawford as Albert Horner
* Rinko Kikuchi as Ritsuko Ibarada, a singer
* Karen Miyama as Hitomi Fukuda
* Ayumu Mochizuki as Yūzaburō Takase
* Miou Tanaka as Tadayoshi Ichiyanagi
* Soma Santoki as Toshio Motoki
* Yūta Hayashi as Hajime Mizukami
* Rin Kataoka as Misae Moriguchi and her daughter Miyuki
* Masato Wada as Tokio Endō
* Miho Watanabe as Mariko Akiyama
* Akana Ikeda as Kaoru Shiomi, Kei and Kyoko's daughter

## 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.

## TV schedule

| Week | Episodes | Title | Directed by | Original airdate | Rating |
| 1 | 1–5 | "Onnasakashite Ushi Urisokonau?" (女賢しくて牛売り損なう?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | April 1–5, 2024 | 16.2% |
| 2 | 6–10 | "Onna Sannin Yoreba Kashimashii?" (女三人寄ればかしましい?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | April 8–12, 2024 | 16.4% |
| 3 | 11–15 | "Onna wa Sangai ni Ie Nashi?" (女は三界に家なし?) | Mayo Hashimoto | April 15–19, 2024 | 16.5% |
| 4 | 16–20 | "Kagami-onna ni Sori-otoko?" (屈み女に反り男?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | April 22–26, 2024 | 16.3% |
| 5 | 21–25 | "Asaame wa Onna no Udemakuri?" (朝雨は女の腕まくり?) | Daisuke Andō | April 29–May 3, 2024 | 15.8% |
| 6 | 26–30 | "Onna no Ichinen, Iwa omo Tōsu?" (女の一念、岩をも通す?) | Daisuke Andō | May 6–10, 2024 | 16.5% |
| 7 | 31–35 | "Onna no Kokoro wa Neko no Me?" (女の心は猫の目?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | May 13–17, 2024 | 17.6% |
| 8 | 36–40 | "Onna-myōri ni Tsukiru?" (女冥利に尽きる?) | Mayo Hashimoto | May 20–24, 2024 | 16.5% |
| 9 | 41–45 | "Otoko wa Dokyō, Onna wa Aikyō?" (男は度胸、女は愛嬌?) | Daisuke Andō | May 27–31, 2024 | 17.0% |
| 10 | 46–50 | "Onna no Chie wa Hana no Saki?" (女の知恵は鼻の先?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | June 3–7, 2024 | 16.7% |
| 11 | 51–55 | "Joshi to Shōjin wa Yashinaigatashi?" (女子と小人は養い難し?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | June 10–14, 2024 | 17.3% |
| 12 | 56–60 | "Ie ni Nyōbō naki wa Hi no nai Ro no gotoshi?" (家に女房なきは火のない炉のごとし?) | Daisuke Andō | June 17–21, 2024 | 17.2% |
| 13 | 61–65 | "Nyōbō wa Hakidame kara Hiroe?" (女房は掃きだめから拾え?) | Mayo Hashimoto | June 24–28, 2024 | 17.2% |
| 14 | 66–70 | "Nyōbō Hyakunichi Uma Hatsuka?" (女房百日 馬二十日?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | July 1–5, 2024 | 17.3% |
| 15 | 71–75 | "Nyōbō wa Yama no Kami Hyakkoku no Kurai?" (女房は山の神百石の位?) | Haruka Ijūin | July 8–12, 2024 | 17.1% |
| 16 | 76–80 | "Onna Yamome ni Hana ga Saku?" (女やもめに花が咲く?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | July 15–19, 2024 | 17.2% |
| 17 | 81–85 | "Onna no Nasake ni Hebi ga Sumu?" (女の情に蛇が住む?) | Kazuki Aizawa | July 22–26, 2024 | 17.3% |
| 18 | 86–90 | "Shichinin no Ko wa nasutomo Onna ni Kokoro Yurusuna?" (七人の子は生すとも女に心許すな?) | Mayo Hashimoto | July 29–August 2, 2024 | 16.7% |
| 19 | 91–95 | "Akujo no Kenja buri?" (悪女の賢者ぶり?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | August 5–9, 2024 | 15.9% |
| 20 | 96–100 | "Kasegi-otoko ni Kuri-onna?" (稼ぎ男に繰り女?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | August 12–16, 2024 | 17.0% |
| 21 | 101–105 | "Teijo wa Jifu ni Mamiezu?" (貞女は二夫に見えず?) | Yū Sakai | August 19–23, 2024 | 17.1% |
| 22 | 106–110 | "Nyōbō ni Horete Oie Hanjō?" (女房に惚れてお家繁盛?) | Mayo Hashimoto | August 26–30, 2024 | 17.6% |
| 23 | 111–115 | "Hajime wa Shojo no Gotoku, Nochi wa Datto no Gotoshi?" (始めは処女の如く、後は脱兎の如し?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | September 2–6, 2024 | 17.2% |
| 24 | 116–120 | "Onna Sannin areba Shindai ga Tsubureru?" (女三人あれば身代が潰れる?) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | September 9–13, 2024 | 17.1% |
| 25 | 121–125 | "Onna no Chie wa Ato e Mawaru?" (女の知恵は後へまわる?) | Mayo Hashimoto | September 16–20, 2024 | 16.3% |
| 26 | 126–130 | "Tora ni Tsubasa" (虎に翼) | Yoshirō Nagikawa | September 23–27, 2024 | 17.1% |
| Average rating 16.8 - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region). ||||||