Natsuhiko Kyogoku’s original work has been made into a musical starring Ryao Konishi and others! “It’s Follies Performance” Musical “The Cage of the Iron Rat” will be broadcast for the first time on TV on Saturday, August 24th and Saturday, August 31st! CS satellite theater
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Press release: August 19, 2024
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Natsuhiko Kyogoku’s original work has been made into a musical starring Ryao Konishi and others! “It’s Follies Performance” Musical “The Cage of the Iron Rat” will be broadcast for the first time on TV on Saturday, August 24th and Saturday, August 31st! CS satellite theater
*At the CS Satellite Theater, “It’s Follies Performance” will be held in 2024. The musical “The Iron Rat’s Cage” is broadcast for the first time on TV. The episode featuring Ryugi Yokota will be broadcast on Saturday, August 24th, and the episode featuring Ryo Kitamura will be broadcast on Saturday, August 31st. *
On the CS broadcast “Satellite Theater”, “It’s Follies” performance will be held in 2024.
The musical “The Iron Rat’s Cage” is broadcast for the first time on TV. The episode featuring Ryugi Yokota will be broadcast on Saturday, August 24th, and the episode featuring Ryo Kitamura will be broadcast on Saturday, August 31st.
The second musical adaptation of the Hyakki Yako series based on Natsuhiko Kyogoku’s original work. The performance script, lyrics and direction are by “FACTORY GIRLS”
~The story I draw~” by Kyoichi Itagaki. Ryao Konishi plays Akihiko Chuzenji, also known as “Kyogokudo”, and Ryo Kitamura and Ryūgi Yokota play detective Reijiro Enokizu in the double cast.
Additionally, we will be broadcasting the musical “Mouryou no Hako” in which Ryō Konishi plays Kyogokudō, just like in this work, so please enjoy it as well!
* It’s Follies Performance: Musical “The Cage of the Iron Rat” (Ryugi Yokota appearance) *
★First broadcast on TV at CS Satellite Theater on Saturday, August 24th from 7:45pm to 10:45pm
* It’s Follies performance musical “The Cage of the Iron Rat” (Ryo Kitamura appearance) *
★First broadcast on TV at CS Satellite Theater from 7:45pm to 10:45pm on Saturday, August 31st!
June 14-24, 2024 / Kinokuniya Southern Theater TAKASHIMAYA
[Original work] Natsuhiko Kyogoku “Paperback version of The Iron Rat’s Cage” (Kodansha Bunko)
[Performance script/lyrics/direction] Kyoichi Itagaki
[Composition/Music Director] Shunsuke Wada
[Cast] Ryō Konishi, Ryo Kitamura (broadcast on August 31st), Ryūgi Yokota (broadcast on August 24th), Naoya Kanzawa, Tandai Ueda, Manabu Takamoto, Aren Konatsu, Hiroshi Hatanaka, and others.
Following the musical adaptation of “Mouryou no Hako” (Kodansha Bunko), originally written by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, this musical “Tetsu Nezumi no Cage” is the second musical adaptation of the Hyakki Yako series written by Natsuhiko Kyogoku.
Continuing from the previous work, an attractive cast appears as Kyogokudo, played by Ryao Konishi, and other familiar characters from the Hyakki Yako series. This time, this work from the same series, also known as “Reading Meteor,” will be made into a musical by director Kyoichi Itagaki. Composer and music director Shunsuke Wada embodies the worldview of this work in a new way.
-Synopsis-
The setting is early spring of 1950. Masasumi Imagawa, who runs a second-hand goods store, receives a request from Ryotoshi Kosaka, a monk at Myokeiji Temple, to buy a divine item that is unlikely to ever come into the world, so he lodges at the “Sengokuro” in the mountains of Hakone. Imagawa spends his days playing Go with Yoshichika Kuonji, an old doctor who was staying as a guest, while waiting for further news from Ryotoshi.
However, what suddenly appears in front of him is the body of Ryotoshi Kosaka, dead in a posture as if he were meditating. There are no footprints around, and the mysterious scene causes an uproar at the inn.
Meanwhile, Akihiko Chuzenji, also known as Kyogokudou, a second-hand bookstore that removes ghosts, and his friend Tatsumi Sekiguchi, a gloomy writer, who were visiting Hakone at the same time, also become involved in the incident. Furthermore, Kuonji, who is frustrated with the Kanagawa Prefectural Police’s arrogant investigation, calls in detective Reijiro Enokizu, and Enokizu also becomes involved in the case. Eventually, the group finds themselves in the midst of the “Hakone Mountain Monk Murder Incident,” which takes place at Myokeiji Temple, a mysterious giant temple where Buddhist disciples are brutally murdered one after another.
Ryo Kitamura appearance episode
Ryo Kitamura appearance episode
Ryugi Yokota appearance episode
Ryugi Yokota appearance episode
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It’s Follies Performance Musical “Mouryou no Hako” Photography: Eri Iwata * It’s Follies performance musical “Mourou no Hako” *
★Broadcast on Saturday, August 24th from 5:00 pm on CS Satellite Theater!
November 10th to November 15th, 2021/Alternative Theater
[Original work] Natsuhiko Kyogoku “Mourou no Hako” (Kodansha Bunko) [Performance script/direction] Kyoichi Itagaki
[Lyrics] Kyoichi Itagaki
[Composer] Tokifumi Ozawa
[Music Director] Tokifumi Ozawa
[Cast] Ryao Konishi, Yu Yoshida, Ryo Kitamura, Naoya Kanzawa, Nagai Okawa, Masaru Kato, Ayaharu Kumagai, Ryosuke Ikeoka, Akira Tokuoka, Marisa, Tsuyoshi Yokota, Hajime Komada
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★It’s Follies Performance Musical “The Cage of the Iron Rat” preview video is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rf-rnV7o-8
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