Furo is a play by Junji Kinoshita. Set in the turbulent early Meiji period, it depicts people caught between old orders and new ideas, community and individual conscience. It is a major modern realist drama by a writer also known for folk plays, and it received the first Kishida Theater Award.

People exposed to the waves of historical change confront the weight of ideals and reality.

Nigo is a four-act play by Tadashi Iizawa, first staged by Bungakuza in 1954. Through satire and comedy, it brings out contradictions in social institutions and relations between men and women, and received the first Kishida Theater Award.

An award-winning play by Tadashi Iizawa that uses satirical laughter to illuminate postwar social systems and gender relations.