
Acting
Aran Kei
Born 1970-10-09 · Konan, Aichi, Japan
Kei Aran (安蘭 けい, Aran Kei), real name Touko Yasuda (安田 瞳子, Yasuda Touko) (born October 9, 1970), is a Japanese actress and former top star otokoyaku (an actress who plays male roles) of the Japanese Takarazuka Revue's Star Troupe. She joined the revue in 1991 and became the top star in 2007. She resigned from the company in April 2009 and is currently pursuing an acting career outside of the Revue. She is of Zainichi Korean descent and the first from such background to become the top star of the company.
Acting credits
8.0Jamie is 16 and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. Jamie doesn't quite fit in. Jamie is terrified about the future. Jamie is going to be a sensation. Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight. Sixteen: the edge of possibility. Time to make your dreams come true.
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2021
NRAran Kei's dinner show.
Aran Kei Dinner Show 「Late Show」
2003
NRAran Kei's dinner show.
Aran Kei Dinner Show 「Sense」
2004
NREarly in the nineteenth century in Paris, an evening party is held at Martin's residence on rue de la Chaussee d'Antin. Galantine, the residence's owner and widow of Duke Martin, holds a salon which is a social gathering of important people such as famous nobles, artists, and industrialists. At the party, a baron's second son Albert reunites with a count's daughter Vivianne whom he has known since childhood. After the loss of her father and elder brother who had stood against the present government, she was exiled to England along with her mother. However, following the advice of her aunt Galantine, she returned to Paris several years later when the government's vengeance against the opposition had subsided. Vivian and Albert are very delighted at their meeting again after a long interval and enthusiastically talk as if they were filling in the long blank of several years.
Lightning in the Daytime / Temptation!
2003
NRGerard is a playboy novelist in New York, living off of his father and friends' money because none of his novels sell. He's a confirmed bachelor. One day, he gets a letter from his father in Monaco. His father is a very successful hotel owner, and the letter basically states that Gerard is to come home, buckle down and learn the business, and marry a woman of his father's choosing.
Meet Again / Nova Bossa Nova
1999
4.0This adaptation of the Nutcracker story (by Tchaikovsky and original choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov) is updated in this stop-motion animation from the original Japanese release of 1979. The new 3-D rendering is complemented by the art direction of Sebastian Masuda who is responsible for much of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's style. She also provides music here.
The Nutcracker 3D
2014
NRThe beginning of the Heian Era, there was a young nobleman named Ariwara no Narihira serving in various government posts, such as Keeper of the Archives. This gentleman had great poetic ability, a handsome honor, was valorous, and was generally of an open and natural nature. This Narihara meets the beautiful Princess Takaiko, who is working as a dancing girl at one of the imperial flower banquets... (Same cast but 2002 version.)
Revolt of a Gallant Poet
2002
NRThe beginning of the Heian Era, there was a young nobleman named Ariwara no Narihira serving in various government posts, such as Keeper of the Archives. This gentleman had great poetic ability, a handsome honor, was valorous, and was generally of an open and natural nature. This Narihara meets the beautiful Princess Takaiko, who is working as a dancing girl at one of the imperial flower banquets...
Revolt of a Gallant Poet
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
血の婚礼
2022
6.0In 1980, Ayuko is a new transfer student in Okayama from Tokyo. She doesn't have any friends and relies on her boyfriend Hideo who is a college student. Ayuko likes to draw a romance manga of herself and her boyfriend. Ayuko's classmate, Takemi, becomes a huge fan of Ayuko's manga and they become close friends. Due to an incident though, they drift apart. 30 years later, Ayuko is now a manga artist and comes back to Okayama to give a lecture at her former high school. There, Ayuko meets Takemi who is now a teacher.
Fantastic Girls
2015
NRSpecial performance.
Takarazuka Revue 100th Anniversary Dream Festival
2014
NRTakarazuka special performance.
TCA Special 2004 "Takarazuka 90 ~On the Road to 100~"
2004
NRAnniversary concert for The Rose of Versailles.
The Rose of Versailles 50 ~Trajectory of Half a Century~
2024
NRThe show focuses on Mitsuko Aoyama (1874-1941), who was the first Japanese woman to marry a westerner.
Mitsuko
2011
NRThe beginning of the Heian Era, there was a young nobleman named Ariwara no Narihira serving in various government posts, such as Keeper of the Archives. This gentleman had great poetic ability, a handsome honor, was valorous, and was generally of an open and natural nature. This Narihara meets the beautiful Princess Takaiko, who is working as a dancing girl at one of the imperial flower banquets...
Revolt of a Gallant Poet
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NRMusical adaptation of The Rose of Versailles, focusing on the Lady Oscar's service in the French Guard during the early days of the revolution, and the relationship between her and her childhood friend Andre.
The Rose of Versailles: Oscar
2006
NRTakarazuka Revue’s 1992 production of "The Rose of Versailles 2001: Oscar and Andre". This version focuses on the relationship between Oscar and Andre.
The Rose of Versailles 2001: Oscar and Andre (Star Troupe, 2001)
2001
5.0Takarazuka Revue's special performance including all troupes.
'91 TMP Music Festival - Ethno Pops
1991
NRMusical adaptation of the Webtoon.
Musical 『Misaeng』
2025
NRTakarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.
Phantom
2004
NRTakarazuka special performance.
TCA Special 2005 "Beautiful Melody, Beautiful Romance"
2005
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Glassy Landscape / Babylon
2002
NRNo synopsis available yet.
王家に捧ぐ歌
2005
NRSnow Troupe's performance.
Frozen Tomorrow: Bonnie & Clyde
1998