The Curtain Rises (2015)

Saori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. Yoshioka performed in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo. Saori, Yukko, Garuru, Nakanishi, Akemi decides to compete in a play competition. Their goal is to make it through the regional competions, but Teacher Yoshioka tells them their aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.

Released Feb. 28, 2015 119 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Keywords: tmdb.competition, tmdb.theater-play, tmdb.theatre-group, imdb.japanese-schoolgirl, imdb.japanese-high-school-girl, imdb.japanese-girl, imdb.japanese-woman, imdb.schoolteacher

Production Companies: Fuji Television Network, PARCO (JP), Kodansha, DENTSU, ROBOT Toei Company, Ltd.

Country: Japan
Production Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese