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Hikaru Asami
Hikaru Asami
Born	January 24, 1972 (age 52); Sendai-shi, Japan
Occupation	actress
Years active	1991-Now
Spouse	Masayuki Sakamoto (m. 2021)

Hikaru Asami (朝海ひかる, born January 24, 1972) is a Japanese performing artist and a former member of the Takarazuka Revue,^[1] where she specialized in playing male characters (Otokoyaku). She joined the revue in 1991 and resigned in 2006. She is from Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken.

Her real name is Noriko Komuro (小室德子) and her nickname is Komu (comes from the last name Komuro).

Troupe history

Flower Troupe: 1991–1997
Cosmos Troupe: 1998–1999
Snow Troupe: 1999–2006

General information

As one of the founding members of Cosmos Troupe, she had given a performance as Prince Rudolf in the 1999 Cosmos production of Elisabeth with Asato Shizuki as Der Tod. However, she was transferred to Snow Troupe right after the Takarazuka performance and the role was taken by Sakiho Juri in the Tokyo performance.

While she was in Snow Troupe, she teamed up with classmates Kei Aran and Kouki Naruse, and the three had a performance at the Bowhall as The Wonder Three. Even though such a trio within the younger group could be found among the Flower Troupe (Haruno, Sena and Mizu) and Moon Troupe (Ōzora, Kiriya and Yamato), they were the only trio that was considered official. This trio was also the major cast for the special performance of Arch of Triumph, which is the first case (and is the only one up to the date) for Takarazuka to have 3 versions of the cast (a major cast led by Yu Todoroki, a new actor cast and the special cast led by Asami herself) for one performance.

Other than male roles, she also had performed in two female roles during her Takarazuka career: Yan-Gai Fan from Singing in the Midnight and Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind.

Upon the resignation of her predecessor Yū Emao she became the top star of the Snow Troupe with Rira Maikaze, a former fellow troupe member from Flower Troupe, by the reprise of Meet Again (in which the title role was played by Yu Todoroki, one of the legends of the company, in the 1999 reprise).

In 2006, when the Star Troupe and Snow Troupe reprised Rose of Versailles (while Star performed the arc of Fersen and Marie Antoinette and Snow performed the arc of Oscar and Andre), she once again performed with a couple former troupe mates from Flower (Haruno and Sena), Cosmos (Wataru Kozuki) and Snow (Kei Aran) on the same stage.

After resignation from the company, she had her first concert (Primary Colors) at Tokyo and Hyōgo in May 2007.

On December 30, 2021, she announces her marriage with former V6 member, Masayuki Sakamoto.^[2]

Notable Performance and Role

Takarazuka Era

Flower New Actor Era

Black Jack - The shadow of Black Jack
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Bud Frump (act two)
Hollywood Babylon - Eliott Walker
Blue Swan - Julian

Cosmos Era

Excalibur - Paul
Elisabeth - Rudolph

Snow Era

Meet Again - Jan
Lovers' Suicide - Hachiemon Tanbaya (starring Kou Shiokaze)
Say It Again - Proteus (co-starring with Kouki Naruse)
The Man Called Bacchus - Lazlo
Arch of Triumph - Rosenfeld (regular cast)/Ravic (special cast)
Singing in the Moonlight - Yan-Gai Fan (female lead, starring Wataru Kozuki)
In Search of El Dorado - Yatarou Yajima
Anna Karenina - Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky (Last leading performance before being top star)
Flaming Love - Feng Wu
Gone with the Wind - Scarlett O'Hara (female lead, starring Yu Todoroki)
Memories of Barcelona - Roberto

Snow Top Star Era

Meet Again - Gerard (repraise, top star debut)
In the Tender Light of a Fine Spring - Yasusuke Fujiwara/Yasumasa Fujiwara (top star debut at Grand Theater, two roles)
Romance de Paris - Vincent Chevalier
Susano-o - Susano-o
Ano Hi Mita Yume ni - Michael
In Quest of the Blue Bird - Vincent McNorton (with special appearance of Yu Todoroki)
Nemureru Tsuki - Hamamatsu Chunagon
Milan Wrapped in a Fog - Lorenzo Croce
Silver Wolf - Silver
Rose of Versailles - Fersen and Marie-Antoinette - Oscar (shared with Natsuki Mizu, Kei Takashiro, Yūhi Ōzora and Hiromu Kiriya for Star special appearance)
Rose of Versailles - Oscar and Andre - Oscar
Lucifer's tears - Lucifer (last show with Takarazuka)

Personal Concert

The Wonder Three
Dancer in the Dark
Mannish
Albatross, Go South (Bow Hall Special)

Performance after Takarazuka

Concert

Primary Colors

Stage

Kiss of the Spider Woman - Aurora
Dancin' Crazy
Elisabeth - Elisabeth (shared role with Mayo Suzukaze) 2008-2009
Cyrano - Roxane 2009
Anastasia - Countess Lily (shared role with Marcia and Keiko Horiuchi) 2020

References

^ "FEATURE: Takarazuka troupe give performance of 'The Rose of Versailles'". Japan Weekly Monitor. 20 March 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2011. Hikaru Asami the star of the YukiSnow group of the revue described Oscar who she portrays as someone whoshows her weakness as a human being but honestly ...
^ INC, SANKEI DIGITAL (2021-12-30). "坂本昌行、朝海ひかると結婚５０歳５カ月での結婚はジャニーズ最年長". サンスポ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-12-30.