Ryunosuke Kimura

Ryunosuke Kimura

Director, Writer
Ryunosuke Kimura’s groundbreaking Kakushinhan (Convinced Criminals) theater company first found fame with its stagings of consecutive Shakespeare plays, especially “The Wars of the Roses – Tetralogy.” Comprising the Henry VI trilogy and Richard III , the plays were staged over a month-long run at the small Theatre Fushikaden in Tokyo in 2016, with the program changing from day to day.
News of that exciting project rapidly spread by word of mouth, immediately bringing Kakushinhan to the attention of drama lovers across Japan, as audiences flocked to see its energetic young actors perform on sets in which Kimura incorporated familiar products and pop culture references as part of his direction. And although these were a new and youthful takes on Shakespeare, they won support among a broad range of theatergoers of all ages.