#Watch Yuna’s “The Sending” Performance Clip from Final Fantasy X Kabuki Adaptation

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“Watch Yuna’s “The Sending” Performance Clip from Final Fantasy X Kabuki Adaptation”

The official website for the forthcoming kabuki adaptation of Square Enix’s internationally popular game Final Fantasy X has posted a performance clip of “Ikai Okuri / The Sending,” which is a ceremony that summoners perform to guide the spirits of the dead to the Farplane.

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In the clip, 29-year-old male kabuki actor Yonekichi Nakamura, who is cast as the female protagonist, Yuna, expresses the ceremony in traditional Japanese dance. The game’s original music by Nobuo Uematsu are newly arranged in a Japanese style for the kabuki play by Tagatayuu Shinnai using Japanese instruments such as flute, kokyu (Japanese violin), koto (Japanese stringed instrument), and percussion.

“The Sending” perfromance clip 110-second version:

30-second version:

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30秒＆15秒バージョンを公開✨

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ぜひお楽しみにしていてください????#FFX歌舞伎 #ファイナルファンタジー https://t.co/z72LLFhNly pic.twitter.com/M76WwT2w4V

— 【公式】『新作歌舞伎ファイナルファンタジーX』 (@ff10_kabuki) February 2, 2023

In commemoration of the 35th anniversary for the Final Fantasy franchise, “New Kabuki: Final Fantasy X” is scheduled to be performed at IHI Stage Around Tokyo in Toyosu, Tokyo, from March 4 to April 12, 2023. The IHI Stage Around Tokyo has a 360° stage with the audience seats in the center, and the the audience seats itself rotate on a huge tray.

Teaser CM:

Teaser visual:

Cast:

Tidus: Kikunosuke Onoe

Auron: Shidou Nakamura

Seymour Guado: Matsuya Onoe

Lulu: Baishi Nakamura

Lutz: Mantaro Nakamura

Yuna: Yonekichi Nakamura

Wakka: Hashinosuke Nakamura

Rikku: Kichitaro Uemura

Yunalesca: Shinobu Nakamura

Kimari: Hikosaburo Bando

Braska: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Jecht: Yajuro Bando

Cid: Utaroku Nakamura

Source: “New Kabuki: Final Fantasy X” official website / Twitter

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