TRUMP Kuro Sekai Uka Chapter Blu-ray | HobbyTiger

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Release February 17, 2021

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TRUMP Stage & Musicals

The latest work in the TRUMP series, which playwright Kenichi Suemitsu describes as his life's work, expands the world of TRUMP through the shared TRUMP series. For the first time in the series, Blu-ray and DVD editions are released simultaneously. The series celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2019. This new shared-world approach brings together six distinguished writers and Suemitsu in a short-story anthology, presenting the aimless journey of Lily, the protagonist of the second TRUMP work LILIUM, in two chapters, Uka and Hiyori, staged concurrently.

The three Uka chapter writers are Norihito Nakayashiki of the theater company Kaki Kuu Kyaku; novelist and mystery writer Ten Furuta, who won the thirteenth Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Grand Prize for Joou wa Kaeranai and the seventy-first Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Itsuwari no Haru; and Tatsuki Miyazawa, representative of the writers' group GoRA and creator of popular works including the anime K, for which Suemitsu directed the stage adaptation.

Stop, time, and grant you eternal beauty. It was a dream of an eternal cocoon stage. At the end and beginning of that eternal stage, the girl awoke from her dream and left the flower garden. The real world to which she returns will surely be a desolate wilderness. An aimless journey. A cocoon stage without end. Seeking the death she has lost. As she wanders, the girl repeatedly encounters others and parts from them. Fourteen actors and seven writers weave loneliness and madness into twelve stories.

The Uka cast comprises Riho Sayashi, Sakiho Juri, Ryosuke Ikeoka, Shotaro Okubo, Etsuko Niira, Hiroshi Miyakawa, Mie Nakao and Mitsuru Matsuoka.

A specially produced booklet and postcard are enclosed. The video extras include full-stage views of dance numbers from the final Tokyo performance: La Vie en Noir - Kuro Sekai no Theme; Pine Lot no Machi; Hashizukuri no Uta; Motomero, Sasagero, Matteiro; and Tori ga Naki Kisetsu wa Meguru. A digest of scenes that changed from day to day and curtain-call footage from the final Osaka performance are also included.