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Takarazuka Flower Troupe 1991 production based on the novel The Murder of Saint Marco by Shiono Nanami, with associated revue show Junction 24. The Emblem of Venezia - At the beginning of the sixteenth century the Republic of Venezia was the most prosperous country in Europe. In 1527, Alvise Gritti, a thirty year-old of great wealth returned to his homeland Venezia from Constantinople. Alvise was a proud man like his father and he could not bear to be excluded from the highest ranks of society... Junction 24 - At dawn in a big city a youth sings about his loneliness. The train station clock mysteriously begins to move anticlockwise. The drab station is transformed into a showy revue theater. The entire cast bounds joyfully out onto the stage to sing and dance.
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In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully joins him.
