Fuyu no Esora

[Machine Translation] Naoto Fujiki's long-awaited first stage performance is now available on DVD! In addition to Katsuhisa Namase and Jun Hashimoto (Gekidan Shinkansen), the cast includes Hitoshi Katagiri (Rahmens), Noriko Nakagoshi, and Takako Kato. The film is a unique interpretation of the "Chushingura" storyline. You won't be able to take your eyes off this astonishing development! Life is nothing more than a fantasy, a fleeting delusion. Utsukushi or dream, light or shadow, cherry blossom or snow... Seek the truth and you will find the false. The stage is set in the Genroku era, a time when many flowers bloomed. The "Chushingura" is now revived between truth and falsehood. Everyone, we are going to take revenge! The time is the Genroku era. Sojuro Sawamura, a popular actor, begs Rihei Amanoya, a wealthy merchant, to marry his daughter Okaru, but he is not taken seriously at all. Oishi Kuranosuke tries to revive the Asano family even after his lord, Asano Takumi Asano, commits seppuku (ritual suicide) after an altercation with Kira Uenosuke, and is forced to resign from his fiefdom. He restrains the Ako ronin who are eager to attack and tells them that the time is not yet ripe, and encourages them to think about their own actions. Rihei Amanoya, on the other hand, had hoped that Oishi and the Ako Ronin would go into battle to avenge their lord's death, but when he learned that Oishi was unwilling to do so and that the Ako Ronin's reputation was also in tatters, he devised a plan. Amanoya tells Munejuro that Okaru is to be his wife, and in exchange, Munejuro is to perform a certain play.

Special Feature / Bonus Track: interview with casts and more bonus footage

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藤木直人、待望の初舞台がDVDで登場! 生瀬勝久、橋本じゅん (劇団☆新感線)といった超売れっ子俳優に加え、片桐仁 (ラーメンズ)、中越典子、加藤貴子といった豪華な顔ぶれがそろう! あの「忠臣蔵」に独自の解釈を加え、奇想天外なストーリーに。驚愕の展開に目が離せない! 生きることは絵空事、束の間の妄想にすぎない。うつつか夢か、光か影か、桜か雪か・・・真を求めて偽に出会う。舞台は百花繚乱元禄の世。あの「忠臣蔵」が、今、虚実の狭間に蘇る。皆の者、討ち入りで御座る! 時は元禄。人気役者・沢村宗十郎は豪商・天野屋利兵衛に、娘のおかるを嫁にしたいと懇願するが、まったく相手にされない。大石内蔵助は、主君・浅野内匠頭が吉良上野介との刃傷沙汰により切腹、領地召し上げとなった後も、なんとか浅野家の再興を図ろうとする。討ち入りにはやる赤穂浪士たちを抑え、まだ機は熟していないことを説くとともに、各々の身の振り方を考えるよう勧める。一方、天野屋利兵衛は大石と赤穂浪士たちが主君の無念を晴らすべく討ち入りすることを期待していたが、大石にその意志が薄く赤穂浪士の評判も落ちていることを知り、一計を案じる。天野屋は宗十郎におかるを嫁にやることを告げ、その条件として宗十郎にある芝居を演じさせるのであった。

藤木直人、生瀬勝久、中越典子等の主要キャストのインタビュー、地方公演でしか見れない藤木直人のアドリブ集などを収録