Gone with the Wind

The critically acclaimed all-woman Japanese acting revue Takarazuka brings Rurouni Kenshin to life, creating a new twist on a globally loved story.

Takarazuka Cosmos Troupe 2023 production based on the novel by Ian Flemming. It’s 1968 and the world is in the grip of the Cold War centered on the United States and the Soviet Union. In Paris, anti-establishment protests known as “May 1968” break out, mainly among students and workers. After they are suppressed, the radicals merge into an underground organization that calls itself “The Red Army League.” At MI6, the pinnacle of British Secret Intelligence Service, secret agent James Bond, code name “007,” receives an order to neutralize a Soviet spy known as Le Chiffre. Bond’s mission is to use his gambling skills to beat him and cut off his source of funds, and then to take him alive and force him to divulge any information he possesses.

Takarazuka Cosmos Troupe 2017 production based on the novel of the same name by Asada Jirou, as well as the 2015 film. The Chateau de la Reine is a luxury hotel tucked into a corner of the Place des Vosges. Two businesses team up to come up with an audacious and unprecedented plan to double-book tours. All sorts of chaos erupts as episodes involving a former Châtelain and King Louis unfold. When all is said and done, where will these people, so confused about love and life, end up? Viva! Festa! It's a festa where people escape from their everyday lives to celebrate all the things that make life worth living: prayer, appreciation, hope and more! The theme of this Super Revue is the festa of the world, including Rio's Carnival, Walpurgis Night from North and Central Europe, the Running of the Bulls in Spain, and the Yosakoi Soran Festival of Japan.

Takarazuka Snow Troupe 1992-93 production based on The 47 Ronin.

This musical play is based on the first act of Goethe's Faust. The angel Mephistopheles is condemned to fall from heaven after committing a sin. He is told that he can only return to heaven if he can bring a human being on the path of salvation. Mephistopheles refuses, believing that man is inherently evil. Vowing to drag a human down to hell along with him, he descends onto Earth and sets his sights on a man named Faust, an aged professor with no will to live.

Takarazuka Snow Troupe 2015 production based on the life of Al Capone. The year is 1929, in a prison in New Jersey. Here, wearing a Divan watch too extravagant for the setting, sits one man: Al Capone. As everyone knows, he’s an American gangster. In a cell arranged especially for him, he gulps down law-prohibited bourbon, next to him sits the script for a new Hollywood screenplay that is in production. The title is “Scarface.” It is plain that that word represents Al. Before the writer of this script, Al begins to tell the lesser known “truth of Al Capone.”

Takarazuka Moon Troupe 1996 production of the Broadway musical Can-Can, with associated revue show Nightless Castle in Manhattan. In 1893 Paris, La Môme Pistache, the proud owner of a Montmartre dance hall, battles with Aristide Forestiere, a self-righteous judge determined to close all establishments featuring the scandalous can-can.

Takarazuka Flower Troupe 1991 production based on the novel The Murder of Saint Marco by Shiono Nanami, with associated revue show Junction 24. The Emblem of Venezia - At the beginning of the sixteenth century the Republic of Venezia was the most prosperous country in Europe. In 1527, Alvise Gritti, a thirty year-old of great wealth returned to his homeland Venezia from Constantinople. Alvise was a proud man like his father and he could not bear to be excluded from the highest ranks of society... Junction 24 - At dawn in a big city a youth sings about his loneliness. The train station clock mysteriously begins to move anticlockwise. The drab station is transformed into a showy revue theater. The entire cast bounds joyfully out onto the stage to sing and dance.

Takarazuka Snow Troupe 1991 production.

Set in 1920s Paris, this psychological romance follows the intersecting lives of four people: Claude, a young nobleman who does not lose his sense of self despite having experienced the horrors of war; Sharon, an otherworldly woman whom Claude begins to fall for; Francoise, a girl yearning for Claude herself; and Louis, a gigolo who is also enamored with Sharon. The drama's undulations are expressed early on in the prologue to tango music which was en vogue at the time. After its debut in 1984 with Takashio Tomoe and Wakaba Hiromi, this exquisite drama was repeatedly restaged. This time, it will be revived as the debut performance for the new Top Combi of Snow Troupe, Nozomi Fuuto and Maaya Kiho.

An original, semi-modernized musical adaptation of Shakespeare's classic romance.

Takarazuka Star Troupe 2007 performance of the musical Secret Hunter and the revue Sakura, performed at the Takarazuka Grand Theater and Tokyo Takarazuka Theater.

Takarazuka Flower Troupe 2021 production of "Gin-chan's Love", based on Tsuka Kouhei's "Kamata Kōshin Kyoku". A human interest tale of the kind you've never seen before. It all starts when the egoistic actor Gin-chan's girlfriend Konatsu gets pregnant, and he forces his underling, the stunt actor Yasu, and Konatsu to get married against their wills....

Women and wine. Always seeking pleasure. Captivating the hearts of countless maidens is the playboy, Don Juan. One night while enjoying the company of a woman as usual, Don Juan angers the Grand Master, the woman's father, which leads to a duel. Don Juan emerges victorious but the Grand Master's dying words are: "Someday love will punish you..." Before long, those ominous words manifest themselves as a curse and an apparition haunts Don Juan. After the incident, unheeding the curse, Don Juan continues to lust insatiably. But as it just so happened, by fate Don Juan meets Maria, the daughter of a sculptor who is creating a statue of the slain Grand Master. And the "curse of love" begins to afflict Don Juan...

Takarazuka Flower Troupe 2016 performance of Me and My Girl, based on the Broadway musical of the same name, with book and lyrics by L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber, music by Noel Gay.

Takarazuka Revue Moon Troupe 2007 production based on the life of Alexander the Great. A show musical painting a picture of the short and intense life of the historically famous king of Macedonia, Alexander III, with pop music which is sometimes comical, sometimes surreal.

Takarazuka Flower Troupe 2007 performance. Based on Edogawa Rampo's novel The Black Lizard, which has had many movie and play adaptations. The Takarazuka version will be brimming over with period romance, set at the turn of the Taisho/Heiwa Eras. As the tale of thrills and suspense between the gloomy and reclusive great detective Akechi Kogorou and the master of disguise and female thief the Black Lizard (who is forever switching between western clothing and kimono) unfolds, it comes to a conclusion different from Mishima Yukio's version. Tuxedo Jazz was the associated revue show.

Paris, 1789. A young revolutionary peasant and a maid of Queen Marie-Antoinette fall in love at the brink of the French Revolution.

Takarazuka Snow Troupe performance. A romantic tale presented as the Grand Theatre debut performance of the new top pair of Snow Troupe, Sakina Ayakaze and Aya Yumeshiro.

Matobu Sei's first dinner show held in 2005.