An early representative play by Takeshi Kawamura and the first volume of a cycle that relocates Nanso Satomi Hakkenden to contemporary Shinjuku. Urban heat, youthful physicality, and mythic narrative energy intersect at high speed.

Set in Shinjuku, the Hakkenden story is reborn with the energy of contemporary theater.

A play by Man Ikuta. Through the figure named Nancy Tomato, it brings to the stage a sense of time nearing its end, urban strangeness, and dislocated conversation.

Characters and conversations touched by an approaching ending leave a strange brightness on stage.

A play by Rei Shido. Borrowing the title of a classic fairy tale, it rearranges a story of transformation, desire, and rescue through stage relationships and a contemporary gaze.

A familiar fairy-tale form takes on another face on the contemporary stage.

A play by Nao Kato. Using the Beauty and the Beast story pattern, it reexamines beauty, otherness, and the conditions of love as relationships on stage.

A tale of beauty and otherness reconsiders the distance between people on stage.

The second volume of Takeshi Kawamura's Shinjuku Hakkenden cycle. Following the urban-mythic world of the first volume, it layers images of Berlin to portray border crossing and anxiety about the age.

From Shinjuku to Berlin, the urban myth expands farther outward.