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The Curtain Rises (2015)
幕が上がる
Saori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. Yoshioka performed in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo. Saori, Yukko, Garuru, Nakanishi, Akemi decides to compete in a play competition. Their goal is to make it through the regional competions, but Teacher Yoshioka tells them their aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.
🏳️🌈 Katsuyuki Motohiro's Japanese coming-of-age movie follows an all-female high school theater club trying to reach national competitions, layering their intense team camaraderie with thick, wholesome sáfic subtext.
Cast

Kanako Momota Saori Takahashi

Shiori Tamai Yuko Hashizume

Reni Takagi Miki Saijo

Momoka Ariyasu Etsuko Nakanishi

Ayaka Sasaki Akemi Kato

Haru Kuroki Yoshioka Misako

Tsuyoshi Muro

Michiko Shimizu

Kotaro Shiga

Riho Yoshioka

Sairi Ito

Kyoko Yoshine

Miki Kanai
Nanoka Matsubara

Ayaka Onishi
Kumi Hyodo

Chiaki Kawamo
Nahoko Kawasumi
Yuko Kibiki

Genichiro Tenryu
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