Musical "Thinking Reeds"

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Name of the organization or individual

NEM KiT

subsidy category

start-up subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2021 1st Startup Subsidy

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Business Overview

The musical "Thinking Reed" is the second original musical created by the creator unit NEM KiT, composed by writer, director and choreographer Rino Kumamoto and composer and music director Futa Totani. The theme of this work project is "What do we believe in living in Japan?". At the end of 2021, participants were invited from the public as research, and a workshop was held over several days to explore the theme. For many people with a Japanese identity, phrases like faith, religion, god ... are often somewhat low-resolution or obscure. However, it does not mean that there is nothing to do with each person's outlook on life and indicators of living, and if you dig deeper, it somehow becomes a pillar of each person that is absolutely unnegotiable, or there is an image that is somehow considered to be a common sense. During the workshop discussion, I thought, "Are you God anymore?". This time, I set gods that appear in Japanese mythology such as the Kojiki and Nihonshoki as motifs for all characters, and expanded the theme to include family, region, roots, and hometown as a kind of faith. It is a "mirrored collage" of Kami and us, with seamless expression using many modern colloquial words and movements, which are characteristic for a Japanese original musical, and a groovy sound incorporating a variety of music from alternative country, soul rock, pop, Japanese rap and folk songs. < Performers > Aoi Onishi, Sayaka Okamura, Nozomi Kasuga, Chionzu Sato, Yuuka Take, tekkan Fukazawa, Moeka Fukazawa, Natsuhime Yamamoto < Staff > Script, Lyrics, Direction, Choreography: Rino Kumamoto Composition, Music Director: Futa Totani Assistant: Kokoro Yamamoto Planning, Production, Organizer: NEM KiT

implementation period

Friday, April 29, 2022 - Sunday, May 1

Place of implementation

Zamza Asaya (Suginami Ward, Tokyo)

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Profile

【NEM KiT】
Established in 2019.
A creative unit that aims to create and produce original musicals by Rino Kumamoto, who is in charge of script, direction, choreography and lyrics, and Futa Toya, who is in charge of composition and music director.
In 2021, the first performance of the musical "Umeki-no-suru Cabaret" was performed.
Many of his works are based on contemporary and everyday themes, and while using the platform of musicals, he takes on the challenge of creating high-quality, life-sized works by incorporating various genres of expression in accordance with the works.