

Takarazuka does French Revolution drama with more sequins than guillotines.
Early in the nineteenth century in Paris, an evening party is held at Martin's residence on rue de la Chaussee d'Antin. Galantine, the residence's owner and widow of Duke Martin, holds a salon which is a social gathering of important people such as famous nobles, artists, and industrialists. At the party, a baron's second son Albert reunites with a count's daughter Vivianne whom he has known since childhood. After the loss of her father and elder brother who had stood against the present government, she was exiled to England along with her mother. However, following the advice of her aunt Galantine, she returned to Paris several years later when the government's vengeance against the opposition had subsided. Vivian and Albert are very delighted at their meeting again after a long interval and enthusiastically talk as if they were filling in the long blank of several years.
Costume
Takarazuka's legendary gender-bending glamour cranked to eleven.
Production
Stage spectacle translated to film with deliberate artifice.
Acting
Yoka Wao's princely charisma commands every frame.
Director
Ogita Kouichi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Takarazuka Revue is Japan's all-female musical theater phenomenon where women play male 'otokoyaku' roles, creating a unique queer-adjacent fandom spanning over a century.
This 2003 film adapts a Cosmos Troupe stage production; the troupe was known for ambitious historical dramas before its controversial 2017 dissolution.
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