English Title: The Wind of Buenos Aires (Viento de Buenos Aires) ~Blown Between the Light and the Shadow...~
Japanese Title: ブエノスアイレスの風 －光と影の狭間を吹き抜けてゆく…－
Romanized Title: Buenosu Airesu no Kaze -Hikari to Kage no Hazama o Fukinuketeyuku -

Troupe: Star
Year: 2008
Performances: Nippon Seinenkan, 11/1 - 11/6; Bow Hall, 11/14 - 11/25

Director/Author: Masatsuka Haruhiko
Composer: Takahashi Kuni, Miyahara Tooru, Takahashi Megumi
Choreographer: Ueshima Yukio, Iga Yuuko, Miori Yumino

Available on DVD: Yes (release date 02/05/09)
DVD Scene/Music Cut: None

Role	Cast
Nicolas (former extremist leader)	Yuzuki Reon
Isabella (a dancer in a tango bar)	Yumesaki Nene
Ricardo (a former comrade of Nicolas's)	Kazu Ryouka
Lilianna (Ricardo's sister)	Mizuse Chiaki
Eva (Nicolas's former lover)	Aono Yuki
Vicente (Eve's lover. Cop)	Kurenai Yuzuru
Marcelo (a punk. Flora's son)	Makaze Suzuho
Flora (a singer at the tango bar)	Otohana Yuri
Lorenzo (manager of the tango bar)	Mishiro Ren
Barten	Tsurumi Mayuu
Bandoneon Performer	Sazanami Reira
Bank Employee	Kisaragi Ren
Weapons Dealer	Mizuki Ryou
Police Station Chief	Tenju Mitsuki
Manager	Suzuno Katsuki
Isabella's Older Sister	Hanami Yuuka
Shop Woman	Junka Marii
Isabella's Brother-in-Law	Aomi Rima
Car Dealer	Miya Rurika
Female Doctor	Miharu Ayaka
Waitress	Yumeki Anru
Waitress	Saotome Wakaba
Policeman	Mao Yuuki

Others:
Kitori Mariya, Otoha Minori, Tamahana Yufu

WARNING!! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!

Buenos Aires in the mid-1900s. The long military regime is finished, and a new president is in power. A former extremist leader, Nicolas, is released from prison after seven long years. He is determined to start his life again, and after some searching finds a job dancing in a tango bar. He has no professional experience dancing, but good enough instincts to see him through. His partner is Isabella, a serious dancer, has hopes of joining a special dancing troupe which only accepts couple entries into its try-outs.

Meanwhile, Nicolas goes to look up an old flame, named Eve. Eve has gotten on with her life while Nicolas was in prison, but is upset that he never tried to contact her. Her new boyfriend and fiancee, Vicente appears. Although he is friendly enough to Nicolas in person, afterwards he asks Eve not to see Nicolas again, and begins having Nicolas watched. Vicente's main job is tracking down former extremists who were never captured or accounted for, and he expects Nicolas to lead him to them.

In another part of town a rather vapid young woman is in a bank getting information about opening an account. When she leaves the building, her entire attitude changes. Her name is Lilianna, and she is the younger sister of Ricardo. Together they are casing out banks for a robbery. They are former extremists, thugh Lilianna was only a child back then. Now they are the only ones of their group left, but Ricardo hasn't given up on his dream of revolution. They run into Nicolas by chance and are shocked and happy to see him.

The three former comrades go out for drinks. Ricardo hopes that they'll work together again like in old times, but Nicolas says he will not. It's over, times have changed. Who would they be fighting against? They split up.

Meanwhile, Nicolas and Isabella practice their dancing. Nicolas has agreed to be her partner for the entry exam. However, his easy dancing seems to have disappeared. He can't do it when it's so serious and not spontaneous. Isabella chastises him, and he gets his confidence back. The day of the competition is fast approaching.

Also at the bar is a singer named Flora with a good for nothing son who used to date Isabella. He tends to hang about demanding money from his mother and harassing Isabella, but Nicolas throws him out. Ironically, while out stealing cars, the son, Marcelo, is drafted by Ricardo and Lilianna to help in their bank robbery. They need a get-away driver. They take him with them and go into hiding.

Lilianna tracks down Nicolas one last time to ask him again to join them. She has had a crush on Nicolas since she was a little girl and thus puts more faith into him than her brother. Nicolas isn't swayed, but he does pick up some hints that Ricardo is up to something. He demands details, but Lilianna runs away.

Worried about his former friends who are the only ones left of his group, Nicolas begins searching the city for them. Meanwhile, Ricardo, Lilianna, and Marcelo meet with an arms dealer. Ricardo doesn't have the money to pay the arms dealer yet, but he needs the guns to break into the bank. So he offers his little sister as surety, with a vow that he will hunt down the arms dealer's entire family if anything happens to her.

Nicolas finally tracks them down at their hideaway. Unfortunately, Vicente and his police have followed him. When he hears the sirens, Marcelo panics and goes for the guns to shoot Nicolas. Ricardo wrestles him for it, and during the scuffle it goes off. Ricardo dies in Nicolas's arms, but manages to gasp out something about saving Lilianna before he passes away. Nicolas gets the details from Marcelo. Together, the two manage to trick the arms dealer and rescue Lilianna, but she is devestated by her brother's death.

Meanwhile, across the city Isabella has been waiting for hours for Nicolas to show up. Finally, her audition is cancelled. Still she waits in the rain outside the building. Nicolas comes running up. The events of the past 24 hours finally catch up to him, and he begins to sob. Isabella says she doesn't care about the audition, but she was terrified that Nicolas might have left town....

• Originally performed in 1998 and 1999 with Shibuki Jun in the lead.

Review by breakism

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