

All-male theater troupe plays a French pilot who talks to flowers. The gender-bending is just the appetizer.
Takarazuka Revue Flower Troupe 2012 original musical based on the life and works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Production
Takarazuka's signature aesthetic: impossible glamour on a biopic about wreckage.
Acting
Tomu Ranju's Saint-Ex balances boyish wonder with crushing self-destructiveness.
Costume
Flight gear as fetish object—leather bombers never looked this deliberately sexy.
Director
Masasumi Tani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Takarazuka's otokoyaku (male-role performers) tradition makes Saint-Ex's gendered creative struggles weirdly recursive—women performing masculinity performing artistic vulnerability.
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