Dongsu PO 2025

Name of the organization or individual

Tokatsu Sports

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2024 Phase 1 Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy Category I Single-Year Subsidy for Creative Arts Activities

Azuma PO 2025 (2025) Photo by Shuhei Fuchino

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Business Overview

Using the Osaka Expo held in 2025 as a motif, this autofictional work depicts the changes associated with the playwright's family business and the resulting family financial situation. In addition, the background of the performers, including the Angola village mayor and the rapper FUNI, was transformed into a hip-hop play.
12 rap songs were included in the play, taking up about half of the performance time and providing a high standard of entertainment.

Script/Direction: Juko Kanayama
Performers: Mayor Angola, Mariko Kawasaki, Rin Kawai, Ai Nagoya, FUNI
Stage Director/Lighting: Chikage Yuyama Sound: Kaito Kondo
Planning/Production: Sachiko Sasaki (Kanayama) Assistant Director: Moeko Konishi

implementation period

May 15, 2025 to 19th

Place of implementation

Theater 1010 Training Room 1

Profile

[Tokatsu Sports]
A theatrical unit formed in 2008, for which the director, Sugatsu Kanayama, writes and directs. By applying hip-hop techniques such as sampling and rapping to theater, he has drawn attention for his style of cutting sharp fragments of modern society.
In recent years, he has been performing autofiction works that highlight his personal aspects.
In 2022, he won the 65 Kishida Kunio Drama Prize for "Pachinko (Top)," a picture of his family's pachinko parlor.