Ryotaro Sakaguchi Will Play Angel in the Japanese RENT
Sakaguchi is booked back to back across morning drama, taiga drama and a Broadway musical, and the costume photo suggests the industry is willing to keep casting him outside his usual register.
Reporting from 1 source: Magmix.
Ryotaro Sakaguchi, 36, plays the drag queen and street drummer Angel in the Japanese production of RENT, running at Theater Creation in Tokyo from October 15 to November 13, 2026, double-cast with Hayate Takahashi. He posted a photo of himself in Angel's all-red costume and white hair on October 7, writing that the musical opens next week and that he finished the final rehearsal.
The production runs at Theater Creation in Tokyo from October 15 to November 13, 2026, with Hayate Takahashi sharing the role. Sakaguchi wrote on Instagram and X that the musical opens next week and that he finished the final rehearsal after the photo of the costume went up on October 7.
The comments under the post read like a call sheet for his year: he plays Kunio Fujita, an associate professor of surgery, in the morning drama "Kaze, Kaoru," and Bankaku, a monks' official of Kofuku-ji Ichijo-in, in the September 27 episode of "Toyotomi Kyodai!" He is also set for the tennis club captain Kitayama Takumi in the film "High School Family," due in January 2027.
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