Niji wo Oru

The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theater troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyougo Prefecture, Japan. Women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals, and sometimes stories adapted from shoujo manga and Japanese folktales.

• Cast: Misako Konno, Hideo Takamatsu, Masuyo Iwamoto, Yoshie Minami, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shun Domon, Michiyo Aratama, Kō Nishimura