Hiroshi Yanagi's popular novel JOKER GAME was a hit when it was animated. On January 5, it was officially announced that the game would be adapted into a stage play and released in May 2017.
The official stage drama website opened today and announced the cast and crew. Starring Katsugo Suzuki, he has starred in the stage drama "Thin Sakura Ghost" Kazema Chikei, and TV special film "Samurai Warrior True Swordsman" Tani Chiaki.
Writer and Director: Daisuke Nishida
Performance Dates: May 4-7, 2017
The story is set in the autumn of 1937 , when Colonel Yuki, who was affiliated with the Empire of Japan , set up a spy training school " D - in spite of the backlash from the top echelons of the army. Yuki taught these young people who had just graduated from various universities all kinds of military abilities, and instilled the idea that all members would repudiate the three precepts of the military: "no death," "no killing," and "no arrest." Spies from Tokyo, Shanghai, and London engaged in a series of games of life and death in which they unleashed their own strategies and brains, even at the expense of deceiving friendly forces.