PARCO PRODUCE hWarai no Daigakuh
Play wright KOKIMITANI
Directed by KAZUYA YAMADA
[CAST]MASAHIKO NISHIMURA, YOSHIMASA KONDO
[STAFF]Set design/YASUE ITO@lighting design/KOJI TERAOKA@Costume design/KIICHI ARAI@Music/HARUMI KAWASAKI@Sound design/Masahiro Inoue@Stage MAnager/TETSUO MATSUZAKA@Producer/GEN SATO
Produced by PARCO CO;LTD

The time is 1940, filled with the gloomy wartime atmosphere. One is the comedy troupe writer, and the other is a hard-nosed government censor. The antagonistic two men would find themselves that they are engaged in the most unlikely partnership through considering glaughter.h The first two-men play by Koki Mitani depicting the odd friendship that grows out between two men who have completely opposite characters. Won the best play award of Yomiuri Engeki Award in 1996.

Record
October 25 to November 12, 1996 first opened at Aoyama Enkei Theater in Tokyo
November 15 - 20 Kintetu Art-kan in Osaka
November 22 Tottori Kenmin Bunka Kaikan small hall
November 24 Cledo Hall in Hiroshima
November 25 Ehime KEnmin Bunkakaikan Sub Hall
November 26, 27 Tsukusi Kaikan in Fukuoka
Nobember 28 Okayama Shiritsu Shimin Bunka Hall
November 30 - December 1   Doshin Hall in Sapporo
December 3 Morioka Theater
December 4 Koriyama SHimin Bunka Center
December 5 Denryoku Hall in Sendai
December 6 Mito Geijutu Kan
December 7 Media Hall in Shizuoka
December 10- 12 Telepia Hall in Nagoya
Won the Best Play Award of Yomiuri Engeki Award
June 5 to 28, 1998 Reproduced at the Parco Theater in Tokyo
July 2 - 4 Doshin Hall in Sapporo
July 8 - 20 Kintetsu Art-kan in Osaka
2005 Made into a film
2006 DVD released after 10 years from the opening

WARAI NO DAIGAKU DVD with English Subtitle
The masterpiece of a two-men play by Koki Mitani.
Opened in 1996 and won Yomiuri Engeki Award for the best play and best production, the legendary production finally comes back as a DVD!

One was delegated
One was compelled
Those menfs friendship accomplished a perfect comedy

In 1940 when the cloud of World War II was dark, two men met in a room in the Police Department. One is a hard-nosed government censor, Mutsuo Sakisaka (Masahiko Nishimura), and the other is an in-house playwright of a comedy troop, gWarai no Daigaku, Hajime Tsubaki (Yoshimasa Kondo). Sakisaka, who completely against a comedy to be produced in a time of emergency, relentlessly orders alteration of the script in order to suspend the production.
Tsubaki, who wants to obtain permission for the production at any price, squarely tackles the revision, using Sakisakafs irrational demands as an underhanded way. Thus begins the drama of two men in a Police interrogation room.

Design by TAKAHASHI Masayuki Stage Photo by YAKOU Masahiko

109min. Recorded At PARCOTHEATER ,June 1998@
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