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The Flowers of Evil Stage Play Cast Pictured in Visual
posted on by Kyle Hallmark
The staff of the stage play adaptation of Shūzō Oshimi's The Flowers of Evil (Aku no Hana) manga revealed the play's key visual on Saturday.
The play's main cast is:
Mio Hanana as Sawa Nakamura
Narumi Akizuki as Nanako Saeki
Additional cast members include:
Shigeaki Fukui
Naruya Hagiwara
Yū Morioka
Haruka Miwa
Miyuki Hiraguchi
Ayuka Terada
Sōichirō Takaki
Yūto
Masashi Nakayama
Keiko Matsumoto
Nenji Nagase
Takaya Maegawa
Shōgo Nihira
Yūichi Uchida
Yuri Maki
Hina Takaori
Shuhei Shimizu
Hiroki Hoshi
Shinji Ōshima
Ryōei Matsuura
Kana Takahashi
The Gekidan Takumi theatre troupe is putting together the play as its 10th production. The play will run for eight performances from July 27 to 31 at the Asakusa Rock Yumamchi Theatre in Tokyo. Tickets went on sale via Ticket Pay on April 10.
Takuya Katō (The Housekeeper and the Professor, Haha o Nakushita Toki, Boku wa Ikotsu o Tabetai to Omotta.) is credited as producer, director, and scriptwriter.
The "corrupt pure-love story" revolves around Takao Kasuga, a bookish boy who loves the poems of Charles Baudelaire (the original author of the poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal or Flowers of Evil). One day after school, he discovers and steals the gym clothes of Nanako Saeki, the girl he has a crush on. However, he learns that Sawa Nakamura, a girl he loathes, happens to catch him in the act. Nakamura blackmails Kasuga into a "contract," or else she will reveal his secret.
Oshimi began the manga in the magazine in 2009, and ended it in May 2014. Kodansha shipped the 11th and final compiled volume June 2014. Vertical published the manga in North America, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime adaptation as it aired in Japan in 2013. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the anime for digital and home video release, and released it on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in 2014.
Source: Comic Natalie
