Protagonist Kenshiro is played by Yusuke Onuki (the voice of Daisuke Kambe from The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited)
By: Nicole S. Castro on June 21, 2022 at 12:29 PHT
Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's martial arts series Fist of the North Star is getting a stage musical adaptation called Musical: Fist of the North Star ~Hokuto no Ken~
Below is the teaser visual introducing the cast (listed in detail below). Protagonist Kenshiro is played by Yusuke Onuki (the voice of Daisuke Kambe from The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited).
Performances will run Sept. 25-30, 2022 at The Bunkamura (Orchard Hall) in Tokyo. Another round of performances will take place Oct. 7-10, 2022 at the Canal City Theater in Fukuoka.
Ticket reservations are on the official website for HoriPro Stage. They will go on sale to the general public starting July 27, 2022, but premium members can purchase tickets earlier starting July 13.
Fist of the North Star (Japanese: 北斗の拳, Romaji: Hokuto no Ken) originated as a Japanese manga series written by Buronson and illustrated by Tetsuo Hara. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1983 to 1988 and initially collected in 27 tankōbon volumes under the Jump Comics imprint.
The series is set on a post-apocalyptic Earth after a nuclear war, with a warrior named Kenshiro as the protagonist. He is the successor of a deadly martial art known as Hokuto Shinken, which gives him the ability to kill his opponents by striking their secret vital points. Kenshiro dedicates his life to fighting against the various gangs, bandits, and warlords who threaten the lives of the defenseless and innocent, as well as rival martial artists, including his own "brothers" from the same school.
The series was adapted into two TV anime produced by Toei Animation. It aired on Fuji TV and its affiliates from 1984 to 1988 with two seasons totaling 152 episodes.
Cast
Yusuke Onuki as Kenshiro
Ayaka Hirahara and May'n as Yuria
Ryosei Konishi as Toki
Kanata Irei and Kazuya Kamikawa as Juza
Takuya Uehara and Kandai Ueda as Shin
MERRY LEY (Miisha Shimizu) as Mamiya
AKANE LIV as Toh/Toyo
Hiroaki Miyakawa as Ryuken + supporting roles
Ryosuke Miura as Rei
Shōichi Fukui and Masaru Nagai as Raoh
Ao Watanabe as Bat
Rena Yamazaki and Manaka Kuwabara as Rin
Noboru Nakayama as Rihaku + supporting roles
Aiichiro Miyagawa as Dagar + supporting roles
Yōhei Isshiki as Young Raoh + supporting roles
Hiroki Hyakuna as Young Toki + supporting roles
Sumito Yamashita as Fudo + supporting roles
Kirihito Saito as Misumi + supporting roles
Staff
Original idea: Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's "Fist of the North Star"
Music: Frank Wildhorn
Director: Sachiko Ishimaru
Screenplay, Lyrics: Ako Takahashi
Music director: Jason Howland
Choreography: Yan An, Tomohiko Tsujimoto
Assistant music director: Kazuho Murai
Art: Yuichiro Kanai
Lighting: Yasuyuki Kusaka
Sound: Koichi Yamamoto
Costumes: Ayako Maeda, Dango Takeda
Hair and makeup: Keikou Hyou
Additional music: Jake Wildhorn
Action: Hiroshi Atsumi
Video: Taiki Ueda, Naho Oshika
Flying: Kazuhiro Matsufuji
Singing supervision: Akira Hayashi
Piano rehearsal: Yuko Nakano
Assistant directors: Keiko Sugada, Tsuneyasu Motoyoshi, Tsubasa Yamoto
Stage director: Yasuhisa Hirose
Source: Fist of the North Star official Twitter, official website, Comic Natalie
NICOLE S. CASTRO
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Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.
