Curry Life

I watched a play named Curry Life last year. The original of this play is novel. It is written by Makoto Takeuchi.
The stage is Kumamoto Prefectural theater. I went to watch it with my elder sister because we like a leading actor of this play. His name is Yuuki Tamaki.


The main characters are five. It is Kensuke, Satoru, Wataru, Hikari and Kojirou. They are cousin each other. They promised that they will run a curry shop in the future when their grandfather died. Their grandfather was a cook. He ran a restaurant. His curry rice is popular. His grandchild liked it.

Then thirteen years passed. Kensuke gets a cooking license. He decides to run a curry shop with Satoru. Satoru has a talented intuition of cooking. They decides to make their grandfather's curry again too.

First, they try to meet Hikari, but she is in Japan. She is in America because she studies. So Kensuke and Satoru goes there, but Hikari was indisposed to cooperate with them. An owner of her part-time job appears there that time. She works at his restaurant. They remember that their grandfather put rafute in his curry because they gave rafute by the owner. Do you know rafute? It is a local dish of Okinawa.
After that, she tells them Wataru's whereabouts. Wataru is an elder brother of Satoru. They are twins. He has disappeared because he got a shock. He failed the university entrance exam. He aimed to entrance in Tokyo University. Kensuke and Satoru thinks that nobody know his whereabouts, but Hikari knew it. She keeps to contact him by an e-mail. Wataru is in India.

Kensuke and Satoru goes to India because they look for Wataru. After that, they meet Wataru. He studies spices and eats various curry in India because he wants to make their grandfather's cuury too. Kensuke try to take him back, but Satoru and Wataru quarrel. They originally are on very bad terms. So Kensuke suggests a curry confrontation to Wataru. If Wataru wins, Kensuke tells him a secret of their grandfather's curry. If Kensuke and Satoru wins, Wataru come back in Japan with them. The results, Kensuke and Satoru wins, but Kensuke tells him about rafute.

Kojirou became a journalist. He was following the suspicion of a member of the Diet at that time. The suspicion is that the member of the Diet made a big profit on a contraband trade just after the end of the war. Kensuke, Wataru and Satoru meets him in Okinawa. Kojirou wants to meet them because the member of the Diet is their grandfather's friends.
In fact, it was the biggest secret.
Finally, they made their grandfather's curry completely.

After that, Kensuke opened his curry shop.
Satoru has begun to study because he decides to succeed to his father's company which Wataru should have succeed.
Wataru started off for foreign country again.
Hikari studies in America. Her dream is becoming a novelist.
Kojirou works hard. Satoru and Kojirou often go to Kensuke's shop.
They have broken up again, but their heart is always connected!


Especially, I like music of this play. A player of alto saxophone appeared and played in it. I was very surprised and moved. The player's name is Seiji Tanzawa. His tone is beautiful and clear.
I like direction of it too. It is that things of Kumamoto incorporate in the story. Mustard lotus root, sliced raw horsemeat and Kumamon appeared in it. The direction is very enjoyable for me.

After having watched it, we ate a curry rice in a family restaurant and went back home.

I like Curry Life!

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