The Dangoro Party in the Sky (1962)
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...
Director:
Nobuo Aoyagi
Writers:
Kihan Nagase, Hajime Arai.
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Frankie Sakai as |
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Kenichi Enomoto as |
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Norihei Miki as |
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Shin Morikawa as |
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Ikio Sawamura as |
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Tōru Yuri as |
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Toshiaki Minami as |
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Shunji Sayama as |
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Achako Hanabishi as |
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Nijiko Kiyokawa as |
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Yū Fujiki as |
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Machiko Kitagawa as |
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Hisako Tsukuba as |
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Tadao Takashima as |
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Asao Uchida as |
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Mutoshi Happa as |
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Choji Oka as |
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Bunji Hayasaki as |
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Rokku Furukawa as |
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Yoshie Mizutani as |
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Akiko Mori as |
| Writing | Kihan Nagase | Screenplay |
| Directing | Nobuo Aoyagi | Director |
| Sound | Hachiro Matsui | Music |
| Writing | Kazuo Kikuta | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Hajime Arai | Screenplay |