
Toshiki Okada and his theater company chelfitsch made a name exaggerating the speech mannerisms and hyperkinetic body language typical of the idle Japanese teens. This particular production won 49th Kishida Drama Award. There are no English subtitles, but there is a fairly detailed scene-by-scene English description, and, of course, the choreographic aspect of it can be appreciated without any translation. Enjoy!..



http://chelfitsch.net/en/
On 21 March 2003, on the eve of the American and British offensive in Iraq, Japan rejoined the ranks of the armed nations for the first time since 1945. It is against this historical backdrop that the characters in Five Days in March tell their own small stories of the everyday life of Tokyo adolescents. The colloquial language spoken by these young people in Tokyo is real enough but seems to betray behaviour that is no longer anything like them. There is a constant dislocation between the words and the bodies - like a precariously balanced reality. Somewhere between the natural and the made-up, Toshiki Okada's singular theatre grippingly sketches out the traits of a disoriented generation through the stereotypes of isolated young people.
(http://www.kunstenfestivaldesarts.be/en/node/75)