Tokyo Notes

A 1998 performance of Oriza Hirata's play set in a Tokyo museum sheltering paintings evacuated from a European war, where family and friends trade quiet conversations that reveal loneliness, love, and social unease, amid growing tensions.

Makoto Adachi

(Shinya Akiyama (eldest son))

Satoko Abe

(Tokiko Akiyama (eldest son's wife))

Hiroko Matsuda

(Yumi Akiyama (eldest daughter))

Kôji Ogawara

(Yuji Akiyama (second son))

Takako Yamamura

(Yoshie Akiyama (second son's wife))

Eriko Wada

(Ikue Akiyama (second daughter))

Satoshi Kobayashi

(Shigeo Akiyama (third son))

Yoko Hirata

(Emiko Hirayama (curator))

Minako Tsuji

(Miyuki Mitsuhashi (art donor))

Shu Matsui

(Kunio Ono (lawyer))

Kazuhiko Sakamoto

(Yoshio Saito (Mitsuhashi's friend))

Kotaro Shiga

(Teruo Kushimoto (curator))

Kenji Yamauchi

(Takashi Kinoshita)

Ruriko Tenmyo

(Haruko Nosaka)

Kenichi Akiyama

(Mikio Hashizume)

Yukiko Kizaki

(Rika Teranishi)

Hideki Nagai

(Eisuke Ishida)

Hideki Nagai

Nio Tsukimura

(Fumiko Mizukami (female university student))

Reina Kakudate

(Yuriko Wakita (female university student))

Kumi Hyodo

(Sachiko Maruta)

Mizuho Tamura

(Sonoko Takanashi)

Nahoko Kawasumi

(Noriko Kureda)

Mariko Yasuda

Shizuko Mochizuki