List of Musicals Based on Japanese Films
Please note: These are adaptations based on Japanese films.
This list is incomplete. Please add to it if you can!
Source Director | Source Material (based on) | Year | Troupe | Title | Japanese Playwright |
High & Low | 2022 | Cosmos | HiGH&LOW | Noguchi Kousaku | |
Partners (TV) | 2009-10 | Flower | Partners | Ishida Masaya | |
Kawashima Yuuzou | The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1956) | 2017 | Snow | The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate | Koyanagi Naoko |
Kinoshita Keisuke | Port of Flowers (1943 - written by Kikuta Kazuo) | 2007 | Moon | Higher than the Sky of Paris | Ueda Shinji |
Kurosawa Akira | One Wonderful Sunday (1947) | 1957 | Moon | One Wonderful Sunday | Takagi Shirou |
Makino Masahiro | Singing Lovebirds (1939) | 2023 | Flower | Singing Lovebirds | Koyanagi Naoko |
Mitani Kouki | Hit Me Anyone One More Time (2019) | 2024 | Star | Hit Me Anyone One More Time | Ishida Masaya |
Suo Masayuki | Shall We Dance? (1996) | 2013-14 | Snow | Shall We Dance? | Koyanagi Naoko |
Takeuchi Hideki | Color Me True (2018) | 2022 | Moon | Color Me True | Koyanagi Naoko |
Tsuka Kouhei | Fall Guy (1982) | 1996 | Moon | Gin-chan's Love | Ishida Masaya |
2008 | Flower | Gin-chan's Love | Ishida Masaya | ||
2010 | Cosmos | Gin-chan's Love | Ishida Masaya | ||
2021 | Flower | Gin-chan's Love | Ishida Masaya |