Niji wo Kakeru Ouhi (Special) [Eng Subs] (Complete)

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虹を架ける王妃
Niji wo Kakeru Ouhi
A Queen to Build a Rainbow

This is the first night of a two-night special program featuring two true stories about the miraculous love between a husband and wife.
The second night is Haruka naru Yakusoku (Obeshanie).

Links
Official Website
DramaWiki
Torrents (uploaded by gryzze)

Prologue (translated from official website)
Princess Masako (Kanno Miho), the first in the Imperial House of Japan to be married off to a foreign country.
His Highness the Crown Prince Eun (Okada Jun'ichi), the last member of the ill-fated Joseon Dynasty of Korea, forcibly brought to Japan at the young age of 11 under the premise of education.
Within the whirpool of rivalry between Japan and Korea, a political marriage in the interests of "friendship" between the two countries. Through the eras of upheaval--Meiji, Taishou, Shouwa--these two would attempt to forge that fateful marriage into a bond of true love. The anti-Japanese movements throughout Korea; the sudden death of Eun's father, the Gwangmu Emperor; the unexpected death of Masako and Eun's first son; the Great Kantou Earthquake; the loss of royal status following the end of the Pacific War--these and various other hardships would attack this couple.
Combined with location shots at UNESCO World Heritage Sites and Important Cultural Properties sites, we will paint on a grand scale the story of a beautiful, but trying love engulfed into the whirlpool of history.

Cast
KANNO Miho as I Bangja // Li Masako
OKADA Jun'ichi as I Eun // Li Gin
WATANABE Ikkei as Ko Wi-gyeong // Kou Gi-kei
HIROTA Reona as Nakagawa Tae
FURUYA Ikkou as Nashimoto Morimasa
HARADA Mieko as Nashimoto Itsuko
and many others

Notes
1. Because this is a (quasi)historical drama, I have attempted to preserve as much of the historical significance as possible, pointing out important place names, events, people, etc. whenever I can. Some scenes with newspaper headlines, for example, end up getting a little cluttered, but I believe this is for the better.
2. Names of Korean characters and places are generally given in Korean. There are a few cases where the names may also be given in Japanese, in which case I enclosed the Japanese in brackets or, as in the credits, used a double slash "//".
3. I do not speak or know any Korean, but I have had a small bit of experience in Romanization of Korean. If anyone is familiar with Korean and notices a mistake in my (Revised) Romanization, please let me know. The only Korean in the drama that I did not do in Revised Romanization is the women's university.
4. Enjoy! I certainly did. Laugh