Taking a backstage look at a popular Japanese musical theater company, DREAM GIRLS provides some striking insights into the lives of contemporary Japanese women, and exposes unexpected links between benign romantic fantasy and bizarre gender-bending.
DREAM GIRLS opens a door into the spectacular world of the Takarazuka Revue, a highly successful Japanese musical theater company in which all of the players are women. Takarazuka was founded in 1914, at the final stop of a provincial railway line near Osaka, by the railroad's director, who
hoped to provide an incentive to ridership. An inversion of the traditional all-male theater in Japan (Kabuki or Noh), it was...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
50 mins