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The way she moves and talks. It's like watching a snake. The actress did a wonderful job.

How is she the same actress that portrayed an introvert female lead in the show Eye Love You, her acting range is incredible.

Lady Ochiba (Ruri) is so brilliant as a character. Her use of manipulation is in the way she talks and she gives off the impression that she is clearly playing the game of chess in politics. The actress just nailed it!

The Taiko was probably sterile. So she got pregnant by someone else and claimed it was his son. I have to wonder if the kid's real father is Toronaga. It would explain why she wants him dead.

Not she, the Wife of the Taiko used the drugs...in the novel, Ochiba sleeps with a peasant, and she hates Toranaga, because he seems to know.

It was a lesson for Ishido to take control instead of letting fate/bureaucracy decide

Due to the challenges of her life Lady Ochiba isn"t behaving like a human being anymore, but has turned more akin to a vengeful spirit yokai. Which is wonderfully captured by the unnerving way the actress performs in her role.

"I compelled Fate to look at me so I could scratch out its eyes" is getting tattoed on my arm

She's giving me Azula vibes

I got the impression that it wasn't Taiko's kid at all. I thought that Ochiba was drugged and impregnated by someone else entirely before she met with Taiko later that evening

This show is a masterpiece. If it keeps this standard, it will be seen as one of the best shows ever made. The script, acting, story, cinematography, character depth. Has everything. The brothel scene, the Noh scene, this scene. You can see that so much thought and care has gone in to every shot.

How is she so sexy, graceful, and so very scary at the same time

If they do a Season 2, Lady Ochiba will become the main antagonist to Toronaga (if they follow history). That will be a clash of titans!

In the book her solution was VERY simple. She stumbled about a peasant in the woods one night and came out pregnant the next morning. And she hates Toranaga, because he might have witnessed it. If I remember right, it was left open in the books, how much Toranaga actually saw or knew, but considering he knows practically everything, I go with "He knows that the heir is not the late Taikos son."

she is frikken terrifying.

She reminds me of a demon in Inuyasha 🪶

Fumi chan is sooooooo beautiful and outstanding actrees. In ‘Eye love you’ she was soo lovely

She is absolutely terrifying.

"By compelling fate to look at me so I could scratch its eyes out."