Aran Kei

Biography

Kei Aran (安蘭けい, Aran Kei), real name Touko Yasuda (安田瞳子, Yasuda Touko) (born October 9, 1970), is a Japanese actress and former top star otokoyaku (an actress who plays male roles) of the Japanese Takarazuka Revue's Star Troupe. She joined the revue in 1991 and became the top star in 2007. She resigned from the company in April 2009 and is currently pursuing an acting career outside of the Revue. She is of Zainichi Korean descent and the first from such background to become the top star of the company.

Known For

Takarazuka Special 2008 ~La Festa!~

Takarazuka Premiere Live 2018

The Nutcracker 3D

Minister (voice)

Fantastic Girls

Takemi Akimoto (adult)

'91 TMP Music Festival - Ethno Pops

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Margaret New

Elisabeth

Young Rudolph

血の婚礼

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Musical 『Misaeng』
2024	The Rose of Versailles 50 ~Trajectory of Half a Century~
2022	血の婚礼
2021	Everybody's Talking About Jamie	Margaret New
2018	Takarazuka Premiere Live 2018
2017	Little Voice
2016	『漂流劇ひょっこりひょうたん島』
2015	Fantastic Girls	Takemi Akimoto (adult)
2014	The Nutcracker 3D	Minister (voice)
2014	Takarazuka Revue 100th Anniversary Dream Festival
2011	Mitsuko
2011	Antony and Cleopatra
2010	Aran Kei's Ark 2010
2009	My Dear New Orleans / à Bientôt
2009	The Musical 「AIDA アイーダ」
2008	The Scarlet Pimpernel	パーシー・ブレイクニー
2008	Side Story: The Rose of Versailles -Bernard- / Neo Dandyism! III	ベルナール
2008	The Red and the Black
2008	Takarazuka Special 2008 ~La Festa!~
2007	Cherry Blossoms / Secret Hunter -There's Nothing in This World I Can't Steal-	Dagobert
2007	El Halcon -The Falcon- / Revue Orchis -A Star Named Orchis-	ティリアン・パーシモン
2007	ヘイズ・コード
2007	TCA Special 2007 "'Allo! Revue! -80th Anniversary of Mon Paris-"
2006	The Rose of Versailles: Oscar	Andre Grandier
2006	Too Short a Time to Fall in Love / Neo Dandyism! -Men's Aesthetics-	アンソニー・ランドルフ
2006	The Rose of Versailles -Fersen and Marie-Antoinette-	Andre Grandier/Oscar Francois de Jarjayes
2006	TCA Special 2006 "Wonderful Dreamers ~People Dreaming~"
2005	王家に捧ぐ歌	アイーダ
2005	龍星⎯闇を裂き天翔けよ。朕は、皇帝なり⎯	龍星
2005	TCA Special 2005 "Beautiful Melody, Beautiful Romance"
2004	Phantom	Count Philippe de Chandon
2004	TCA Special 2004 "Takarazuka 90 ~On the Road to 100~"
2004	Aran Kei Dinner Show 「Sense」
2003	Singin' in the Rain	Don Lockwood
2003	TCA Special 2003 "Dear Grand Theater"
2003	Lightning in the Daytime / Temptation!	Edmond de Lambrouse
2003	Aran Kei Dinner Show 「Late Show」
2002	The Glassy Landscape / Babylon
2002	The Prague Spring / Lucky Star!	Jan Palach
2002	Butterfly Lovers / Southern Cross Revue in China	Villager S
2002	Revolt of a Gallant Poet	Fujiwara no Tokitsura
2001	The Rose of Versailles 2001: Oscar and Andre (Star Troupe, 2001)	Hans Axel von Fersen
2001	Revolt of a Gallant Poet	Fujiwara no Tokitsura
1999	The Wonder Three
1999	Meet Again / Nova Bossa Nova	Pierre Clement
1998	Frozen Tomorrow: Bonnie & Clyde	Jeremy Methvin
1998	Icarus	Icarus
1997	Romanesque Mask / Golden Days	アゾラン
1997	Ghost at Midnight / Les Cherubim	William
1997	Wuthering Heights	Edgar Linton
1996	Elisabeth	Young Rudolph
1995	Love Blooms Out on the Murasakino	Midori
1994	A Battlefield for the Two of Us	Shiek
1991	'91 TMP Music Festival - Ethno Pops
	Revolt of a Gallant Poet	Fujiwara no Tokitsura

Year	TV Show	Role