INTRODUCTION
A different  "Tales of Tohno" Danced by K-BALLET, Kaiji Moriyama, Akaji Maro, and Maholo Onoe

"If only I could meet you again, between this world and the other."

The latest work from K-BALLET Opto, a project exploring the depths of dance by Bunkamura and K-BALLET TOKYO, presents "A Dance Remembered in Tohno" a masterpiece of Japanese fantastic literature, with the brilliant director Kaiji Moriyama.

Based on the poignant love story of a Kamikaze pilot and his fiancée, another "Tales of Tohno" is newly born, where reality and fantasy, this world and the other, intersect. Alongside K-BALLET's top dancers, Moriyama himself will also take the stage, while Akaji Maro (82), a living legend of the Butoh world, and the elite members of Dairakudakan breathe life into the fantastical world as the "Tohno" mountain's monstrous forms. Furthermore, Maholo Onoe, a 13-year-old prodigy son of Shinobu Terajima, from the Onoe family prestigious for their Kabuki, and Laurent Ghnassia, a French art director, plays a mysterious boy standing between this world and the other, influencing the fate of the story.

This miraculous collaboration, where the bodies of ballet, Butoh, and Kabuki intertwine, will be a legendary moment never to be seen again!

PLOT
"I want to see you, talk to you, unbearably."

This story began with encountering a will of a kamikaze pilot.

In 1945, a young man's thoughts for his fiancée before his sortie. He wanted her to forget him and live a new and happy life. He suppressed his sorrowful feelings and prayed for her happiness. But at the end of the will, his unbearable true feelings were written: "I want to see you, talk to you, unbearably."

Sortie. Cumulonimbus clouds, the sound of cicadas, where is this...? Am I dead? Or am I alive? The young man wanders through "Tohno," a land of illusion where this world and the other intersect, guided by a boy who was spirited away. Along the way, he meets Oshirasama(a woman who loved her horse so much that she ended up marrying him), a Yuki-onna(a female snow ghost who kills using her ice cold breath), and a Yamanba(a monstrous crone living in the mountains), seeing the image of his fiancée in all of them, until he reaches the Sanriku beach where he once walked with her. Moonlight, gently lapping waves, an approaching figure, what did the young man see there...? This is another "Tales of Tohno" presented on the 150th anniversary of Kunio Yanagida's birth and the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.

Cast
＜K-BALLET TOKYO＞
Shoya Ishibashi, Saya Okubo, Hayato Takei, Mayu Tsukada, Rika Tsuji, Nao Umeki, Yeonghwi Kim, Teruki Nakai, Takafumi Hori, Asuka Otsubo, Yuichiro Mukai, Masaomi Mori, Rei Takahashi*, Natsuki Yamada*
*K-BALLET Opto Dancer

＜Guest Appearance＞
Akaji Maro, Maholo Onoe, Mutsuko Tanaka, Kaiji Moriyama
Takuya Muramatsu (Dairakudakan), Atsushi Matsuda (Dairakudakan), Naoya Oda (Dairakudakan), Barabbas Okuyama, Kotaro Mizushima, Riku Ogawa

More Information (Japanese Site)