Caligula

[Machine Translation] Shun Oguri takes on the young tyrant Caligula in the most talked-about film of 2007! The world-famous Yukio Ninagawa takes on the masterpiece by Camus, one of the most famous figures in French literature! Beautiful because he is a cruel and inhumane tyrant! Caligula, the young mad king, depicts the outburst and self-destruction of a beautiful king who indulges in all manner of vices. This is a love story of a mad emperor who realizes the absurdity of the world after the death of his beloved, and the people who are attracted by his purity. Caligula, the young emperor of the Roman Empire, disappears from his palace the day his sister, with whom he had an incestuous relationship, dies suddenly. When Caligula finally returns three days later, amidst the anxiety of the nobility, he makes a startling proclamation: "I am the Emperor of Rome. He would kill and confiscate the property of every person, noble or commoner, who possessed any kind of wealth. A succession of executions and torture, plundering the wives of nobles and forcing them to work in public brothels, closing food stores for the citizens and causing famine, dressing up as gods and desecrating the gods.... Rome trembled with fear at the atrocities committed. The seventeen-year-old poet Scipion, who had his father murdered, was drawn to Caligula because of the purity he found in her. Kelea, an aristocrat seeking a peaceful life, is the only one who sees the danger in Caligula's ideology and begins to plan a coup d'etat. Caligula's inexplicable passion, "I want the impossible," continues to run amok and eventually destroys itself. A leaflet with many stage photos is enclosed.

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小栗旬が若き暴君カリギュラに挑んだ2007年最大の話題作! 世界のNINAGAWA・蜷川幸雄がフランス文学を代表するカミュの傑作に挑む! 残虐非道な暴君であるがゆえに美しい! 若き狂王"カリギュラ"ありとあらゆる悪徳に手を染める美しき王の暴走と自滅を描く。愛するものの死でこの世の不条理を悟った狂える皇帝と、その純粋さに惹かれる人々との愛の物語。 ローマ帝国の若き皇帝カリギュラは近親相姦の関係にあった妹が急死した日、宮殿から姿を消した。貴族たちに不安が広がる中、3日後にようやく戻ったカリギュラは、驚くべき宣言を出す。貴族、平民を問わず、何らかの財産を持つ者を順次殺して財産を没収する――それは、ほんの手始めだった。相次ぐ処刑と拷問、貴族の妻を略奪し公営売春宿で働かせる、市民のための食料庫を閉鎖して飢饉を起こす、神に扮装して神々を冒涜する・・・。残虐非道な行為の数々にローマは恐怖で震え上がった。常軌を逸したカリギュラを誰もが恐れたが、愛人のセゾニアは愛ゆえにカリギュラに協力し、非情な女に徹する。17歳の詩人シピオンは父親を殺されたにも関わらず、カリギュラの中に純粋さを感じ取り、心ひかれていく。平穏な生活を求める貴族ケレアはただ一人、カリギュラの思想の危険さを見抜き、クーデターの時期を計り始めていた。「不可能なものが欲しい」、カリギュラの不可解な情熱は、暴走し続け、やがて自らを滅ぼしていく。 舞台写真をふんだんに使ったリーフレットを封入。

プレス・インタビュー(約4分)、5人のキャスト(小栗旬、勝地涼、長谷川博己、横田栄司、若村麻由美)による座談会(約16分)