About the Project
Theatrical Phenomenon! – Lost innocence, Love, Hatred and Desire intertwine around a murder case
A timeless masterpiece by the legendary Japanese playwright Kohei Tsuka
“TSUKA WILL SHOCK HOLLYWOOD!”
A Female Chief Detective Denbei Kimura at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is notorious for her fearlessness. She will do anything to get justice served even if it means losing the love of her life. Denbei’s loyal subordinate Sadayuki Toda has yet to find the courage to go back his home in a small village to confide his parents that he is gay. They are assigned to solve the murder case committed by Kintaro Oyama who killed his childhood girlfriend, Aiko Yamaguchi on the beach in Atami. Just before the murder, the pride of Goto Island, the hometown of Kintaro and Aiko, Daizen Lee took his own life. Detective Tomekichi Kumada is transferred to Denbei’s investigation room. The two were lovers in the past. Kumada is desperately trying to protect the mystery of a murder. Behind the murder lies the secret of small Islands, Goto of Nagasaki. Denbei is determined to make Kintaro Oyama to be “the first-class criminal” however it takes…
"Prostitute Investigator" (90min)
Written by Kohei Tsuka
The Broadwater Second Stage
6320 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038
Date/ Time:
Sunday, June 8th at 5:00pm
Saturday, June 14th at 6:30pm
Saturday, June 21st at 5:00pm
Ticket: $25
Directed by Tomoko Karina
Artistic Director: Carla Valentine
Artistic/ Cultural Consultant: Dan Pousson
English Translation by Tomoko Karina
Pictured by Christianne Manzano
Starring: Tomoko Karina, Christian Lowery, Thomas McKean, and Quinn Vu
Purchase Ticket at Hollywood Fringe Festival Website
https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/12122
Contact: [email protected]
Ensemble Tenshi Official Website https://ensembletenshi.org/
- About the Playwright -
Kōhei Tsuka (1948 – 2010) a Korean Japanese playwright, theater director, and screenwriter. He was one of Japan’s most influential theater figures, to the extent that recent Japanese theatrical history has been divided into pre-Tsuka and post-Tsuka periods. Naoki Literary Prize laureate, Winner of Japan Academy Award the Best Screenplay (“Fall Guy”) Tsuka was the youngest person to win the Kishida Drama Award, (“Atami Murder Case”), at the age of 25. His plays are beloved and performed by many theatre companies every year all over Japan.
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