Kumo no Ue Dangorou Ichiza
Movie
雲の上団五郎一座
1962/04/15
Speech duration
1h 6min
Word count8,582
Unique words2,000
Words (1-occurrence)1,149
Unique kanji763
Kanji (1-occurrence)296
Difficulty beta
Average
Speech speed
316

The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater at the end of the year. The troupe "Kumo no Ue Dangoro" continues to tour from town to village. The small cast of the troupe includes its leader (Kenichi Enomoto), Norizo (Norihei Miki) and Taizo (Mutoshi Happa), who play female roles - they are all super actors, each of whom plays five roles. Dan Goro dreams of performing in a major theater and tries to put on a big show with a young man he meets in Shikoku named Sakai (Frankie Sakai), but...

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Genres
Comedy
Drama