Aran Kei

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

Everybody's Talking About Jamie poster
8.0

Jamie 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

Aran Kei Dinner Show 「Late Show」 poster
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Aran Kei's dinner show.

Aran Kei Dinner Show 「Late Show」

2003

Aran Kei Dinner Show 「Sense」 poster
NR

Aran Kei's dinner show.

Aran Kei Dinner Show 「Sense」

2004

Lightning in the Daytime / Temptation! poster
NR

Early 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

Meet Again / Nova Bossa Nova poster
NR

Gerard 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

The Nutcracker 3D poster
4.0

This 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

Revolt of a Gallant Poet poster
NR

The 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

Revolt of a Gallant Poet poster
NR

The 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

血の婚礼 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

血の婚礼

2022

Fantastic Girls poster
6.0

In 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

Takarazuka Revue 100th Anniversary Dream Festival poster
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Special performance.

Takarazuka Revue 100th Anniversary Dream Festival

2014

TCA Special 2004 "Takarazuka 90 ~On the Road to 100~" poster
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Takarazuka special performance.

TCA Special 2004 "Takarazuka 90 ~On the Road to 100~"

2004

The Rose of Versailles 50 ~Trajectory of Half a Century~ poster
NR

Anniversary concert for The Rose of Versailles.

The Rose of Versailles 50 ~Trajectory of Half a Century~

2024

Mitsuko poster
NR

The show focuses on Mitsuko Aoyama (1874-1941), who was the first Japanese woman to marry a westerner.

Mitsuko

2011

Revolt of a Gallant Poet poster
NR

The 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

The Rose of Versailles: Oscar poster
NR

Musical 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

The Rose of Versailles 2001: Oscar and Andre (Star Troupe, 2001) poster
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Takarazuka 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

'91 TMP Music Festival - Ethno Pops poster
5.0

Takarazuka Revue's special performance including all troupes.

'91 TMP Music Festival - Ethno Pops

1991

Musical 『Misaeng』 poster
NR

Musical adaptation of the Webtoon.

Musical 『Misaeng』

2025

Phantom poster
NR

Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.

Phantom

2004

TCA Special 2005 "Beautiful Melody, Beautiful Romance" poster
NR

Takarazuka special performance.

TCA Special 2005 "Beautiful Melody, Beautiful Romance"

2005

The Glassy Landscape / Babylon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Glassy Landscape / Babylon

2002

王家に捧ぐ歌 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

王家に捧ぐ歌

2005

Frozen Tomorrow: Bonnie & Clyde poster
NR

Snow Troupe's performance.

Frozen Tomorrow: Bonnie & Clyde

1998