Last weekend the live-action stage play model of “Spirited Away” held its closing efficiency of 2023, closing out its run on the Misonoza theater in Nagoya. If you didn’t have an opportunity to catch it, although, don’t fear, as a result of the variation of the Studio Ghibli anime film will return in 2024. Actually, even if you happen to did get to observe the play this 12 months, it’d nicely be value seeing once more, as two new actresses can be taking over the function of protagonist Chihiro.
Up till now, the function of Chihiro has been break up between actresses Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi, who painting the adventurous 10-year-old on completely different efficiency days. Hashimoto and Kamishiraishi will proceed to take action, however it is going to now be a four-woman rotation, as Rina Kawaei and Momoko Fukuchi will even be part of the manufacturing and tackle the Chihiro function.
▼ Rina Kawaei (left) and Momoko Fukuchi (proper)
Kawaei’s present enterprise debut got here as part of idol supergroup AKB48. She remained a member from 2012 to 2015, throughout which she was attacked by a person wielding a handsaw throughout a handshake meet-and-greet occasion in 2014. Following her departure from the group, Kawaei transitioned to TV drama and film appearing, together with a job of murderous Sakura Aoi within the live-action “Death Note: Light Up the New World” and “Death Note: New Generation.”
“Spirited Away” can be her first skilled stage play function. “I never expected that I would be chosen to play Chihiro” says Kawaei, who attended the play as a theatergoer previous to auditioning for the function. “I’m already feeling nervous, but I’ll do my best to keep up with all the other talented members of the company and deliver the best viewing experience possible!”
This will even be the primary skilled stage play function for Fukuchi, an actress/media persona who’s been showing in TV dramas, selection reveals, and flicks since 2014. Fukuchi, the daughter of actor Show Aikawa and actress Kumi Aochi, says “I remember my older brother and I, when we were four and three years old, pestering our mom to take us to see the ‘Spirited Away’ anime movie on opening day at a theater in Shibuya, and lining up to get in. Spirited Away felt to mysterious to me, but even as a child I remember feeling how strong of a movie it was.”
The solid growth comes after this month’s earlier announcement that the “Spirited Away” stage play can be holding its first-ever outside-Japan performances beginning subsequent April in London, the place its engagement is scheduled to final from April to July. While Chihiro’s first two actresses, Hashimoto and Kamishiraishi, are already confirmed to be making the journey to the UK, it’s at the moment unclear whether or not Kawaei and Fukuchi will as nicely. Performances of the play are scheduled to renew inside Japan subsequent March in Tokyo, with the manufacturing then transferring to Nagoya, Fukuoka, Osaka, and Sapporo between April and June, so it could possibly be that Kawaei and Fukuchi can be dealing with the home efficiency throughout the instances that Hashimoto and Kamishiraishi are in a foreign country, however an official itemizing of which actresses can be taking part in the function on which days and at which venues is but to be launched.
Source: Spirited Away official web site by way of IT Media
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