Saotome Taichi - Dancer, Onnagata

[karadinart]

Here is a beauty, in makeup and out, Japan's rising star, he's 19! He became known for being an onnagata (female role specialist in the more popular theater of Kyogen (less structured than Kabuki) and if he's great now, imagine him in his prime, give about 20 years!

clips of him dancing (as a man-with his new passion for tap dancing)

Still one of his best performances as onnagata - in full

Comments

[ashura-oh.livejournal.com]

According to the title writing, he's 15 in the second video. FIFTEEN. *swoons*

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thats an older vid, he grew up dancing as his dad is in the theatre, but he's trying to make certain he's not only cast in female roles.