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Hana Saku Minato

Hana Saku Minato

THE PIT


STAFF
Written by : Kikuta Kazuo
Directed by : Uyama Hitoshi
     
Set Designer : Shima Jiro
Lighting Designer : Murofushi Ikuo
Sound Designer : Takahashi Iwao
Costume Designer : Ogata Kikuko
Assistant Director : kamimura Satoshi
Stage Manager   Hojo Takashi
Artistic Director : Kuriyama Tamiya
Presented by : New National Theatre, Tokyo

CAST
Watanabe
Toru
Takahashi
Kazuya
Terada
Michie
Takahashi
Choei
Orimoto
Junkichi
Fuji
Sumiko
Ishida
Keisuke
Otaki
Hiroshi
Tsuda
Masumi
Yoshimura
Sunao
Kinami
Haruka
Tamura
kinto
Konagaya
Katsuhiko
Sawada
Fuyuki
Moriike
Natsumi
Yajima
Miki
Ueda
Shinsuke
Kizu
Masayuki
 

PERFORMANCES
March
2005
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Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Tue Wed Thu
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6:00pm           X           X        
6:30pm X X X           X         X X  
Doors will open 30 minutes before the opening of the performance.
Approximate running time: 3 hours with 1 intermission

ADVANCE TICKETS
  Available from 10:00a.m., Saturday, Feburary 5, 2005
New National Theatre Tokyo Box Office: +81-3-5352-9999(10:00am-6:00pm)
Internet ticket reservation available through the following Websites.(Japanese only)
http://t.pia.co.jp/
http://eee.eplus.co.jp/

TICKET PRICES (with tax)

  Seat A Seat B
Price ¥ 6,500
Seat Z(¥1,500) / Same day student tickets (50% off) is sold only on the performance day at the Box Office and a part of Ticket Pia Offices.

SEAT MAP

seat map[Hana Saku Minato]
As the seating plan shows, people in the front rows will watch the play surrounded by the stage. When purchasing your ticket, please note that while you will fully enjoy an atmosphere that would make you feel as if you were one of the islanders themselves, the performers may sometimes act behind the audience seats.

Two fainthearted yet nice men cause a great disturbance on an outlying island. After many fine performances, a new combination of swindlers comes into being.

handbill[Hana saku Minato] Hana Saku Minato (The Flowering Port) is the first in the series presented with “laughter,” the broad, deep and mysterious sentiment of human beings, as its theme. This is a famous work written by Kikuta Kazuo, a popular playwright and stage director of the Showa period, and his most important works, together with the stage drama Gametsui Yatsu, as well as the radio dramas, Kane no Naru Oka and Kimi no Nawa. It was first staged by the Furukawa Roppa Theatre Company in 1943 and was also adapted to film, gaining public favor. Set on an isolated island that actually exists in the Kyushu region, the play depicts the loftiness of living with hope and the depth of human feelings while looking hard at the state of affairs in the world as it plunges into a dark age ? the outbreak of the Pacific war. The story unfolds in the energetic lives of the islanders. Two swindlers, who plot to cheat islanders out of their money, are set up against their will as the benefactors of the islanders, creating a great disturbance. In addition to the humor of the disturbance, the play warmly and sincerely inquires into the good and evil inherent in any person. It is indeed a theatrical gem that has both glamour and substance.The roles of the pair of swindlers, which have turned out many famous combinations of actors, will be played by Watanabe Toru and Takahashi Kazuya, who appear at the NNTT for the first time. Yuki, a mysterious woman who has returned from abroad, is played by Fuji Sumiko. Other talented actors and actresses, as well as the direor Uyama Hitoshi, who creates delicate yet dramatic harmony, will turn the work into a heartwarming drama replete with laughter and excitement.


Synopsis

Two swindlers arrive at Koshikijima, an isolated island south of Kyushu, and call themselves the children of a late local man of prominence. They tell the islanders that they want to revive the shipbuilding business, which once flourished on the island, and start to raise funds with the island’s Japanese inn Kamomekan as their base. They had planned to run away with the money, but are unable to do so because of their innately good and weak nature. While they are desperate to escape, the world soon changes as the war breaks out. Because of the enthusiasm of the islanders who do not know that they are being deceived, the shipbuilding business advances steadily, and the two fraudsters become the spiritual support of the islanders, leading them to a situation in which they work hard for the business. At that time, a woman named Yuki who has returned from overseas comes to the island accompanied by her mentally retarded daughter. Okano, the landlord of Kamomekan, apparently knows Yuki’s identity. Through the good offices of Okano, Yuki starts to make a living while working for the inn, but…one stormy night, the respective fates of the people on the island begin to roll out.

Watanabe Toru Takahashi Kazuya Terada Michie Takahashi Choei Orimoto Junkichi Fuji Sumiko
Watanabe Toru Takahashi Kazuya Terada Michie Takahashi Choei Orimoto Junkichi Fuji Sumiko
Ishida Keisuke Otaki Hiroshi Tsuda Natsumi Yoshimura Sunao Kinami Haruka Tamura Kinto
Ishida Keisuke Otaki Hiroshi Tsuda Natsumi Yoshimura Sunao Kinami Haruka Tamura Kinto
Konagaya Katsuhiko Sawada Fuyuki Moriike Natsumi Yajima Miki Ueda Shinsuke
Konagaya Katsuhiko Sawada Fuyuki Moriike Natsumi Yajima Miki Ueda Shinsuke

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