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Kunio-kun Games Inspire Stage Play in November
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Solid Star announced in September that it is producing a stage play adaptation of Technos Japan's Kunio-kun games. The play will run from November 21 to 25 at Tokyo's Zenrosai Hall/Space Zero.
The cast includes:
- Takuya Mizoguchi as Kunio
- Takeshi Terayama as Riki
- Ryōsei Tanaka as Kōji
- Shōta Onuma as Sugata
- Naoki Takeshi as Hiroshi
- Ami Maeda as Misako
- Erika Denya as Kyōko
- Zenitsu Hashimoto as Kobayashi
- Kōji Saikawa as Kinoshita
- Yū Futaba as Ryūichi
- Kaname Futaba as Ryūji
- Kentarō Akisawa as Gōda
- Hiroki Tagawa as Murasaki
- Yūsaku Kawasaki as Mochizuki
- Reiji Sakagaki as Taira
- Keiki Katō as Godai
- Takeshi Itakura as Nishimura
- Yasumasa Harada as Sabu
- Mizuki Fujimine as Saori
- Dekkachan as Misuzu
- Tomoyuki Menda as Nedachi
- Yūta Suzuki as Sawaguchi
- Yūichi Shimoyama as Nanba
- Kensuke Yukawa as Takeuchi
- Kaoru Yamamoto as Nomura
- Kōhei Fujioka as Watanabe
- Lee Hyun-woo as Suzuki
Technos Japan released the first game in the Kunio-kun series in 1986, and the series has had numerous installments since then. Some of the games in the series were localized in the West with altered titles, visuals, and stories, resulting in such titles as River City Ransom, Renegade, and Crash 'n' the Boys: Street Challenge.
Arc System Works acquired the rights to a number of Technos Japan games — including Double Dragon, Super Dodge Ball, River City Ransom, and Kunio-kun games — in June 2015. The company will release Kunio-kun: The World Classics Collection, a collection of games in the Kunio-kun franchise, on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch on December 20, with a PC release via Steam at a later date.
