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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Fantastic Girls (2015) — Takemi Akimoto (adult)
2. The Nutcracker 3D (2014) — Minister (voice)
3. Singin' in the Rain (2003) — Don Lockwood
4. Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021) — Margaret New
5. Cherry Blossoms / Secret Hunter -There's Nothing in This World I Can't Steal- (2007) — Dagobert
6. Elisabeth (1996) — Young Rudolph
7. Wuthering Heights (1997) — Edgar Linton
8. '91 TMP Music Festival - Ethno Pops (1991)
9. Mitsuko (2011)
10. The Rose of Versailles 2001: Oscar and Andre (Star Troupe, 2001) (2001) — Hans Axel von Fersen
11. 血の婚礼 (2022)
12. The Rose of Versailles: Oscar (2006) — Andre Grandier
13. Romanesque Mask / Golden Days (1997) — アゾラン
14. 王家に捧ぐ歌 (2005) — アイーダ
15. The Scarlet Pimpernel (2008) — パーシー・ブレイクニー
16. El Halcon -The Falcon- / Revue Orchis -A Star Named Orchis- (2007) — ティリアン・パーシモン
17. The Glassy Landscape / Babylon (2002)
18. Too Short a Time to Fall in Love / Neo Dandyism! -Men's Aesthetics- (2006) — アンソニー・ランドルフ
19. Side Story: The Rose of Versailles -Bernard- / Neo Dandyism! III (2008) — ベルナール
20. Phantom (2004) — Count Philippe de Chandon
21. ヘイズ・コード (2007)
22. The Red and the Black (2008)
23. My Dear New Orleans / à Bientôt (2009)
24. Ghost at Midnight / Les Cherubim (1997) — William
25. A Battlefield for the Two of Us (1994) — Shiek
26. The Rose of Versailles -Fersen and Marie-Antoinette- (2006) — Andre Grandier/Oscar Francois de Jarjayes
27. Love Blooms Out on the Murasakino (1995) — Midori
28. Aran Kei's Ark 2010 (2010)
29. Takarazuka Revue 100th Anniversary Dream Festival (2014)
30. The Prague Spring / Lucky Star! (2002) — Jan Palach
31. Frozen Tomorrow: Bonnie & Clyde (1998) — Jeremy Methvin
32. 龍星⎯闇を裂き天翔けよ。朕は、皇帝なり⎯ (2005) — 龍星
33. Takarazuka Special 2008 ~La Festa!~ (2008)
34. TCA Special 2007 "'Allo! Revue! -80th Anniversary of Mon Paris-" (2007)
35. TCA Special 2006 "Wonderful Dreamers ~People Dreaming~" (2006)
36. TCA Special 2005 "Beautiful Melody, Beautiful Romance" (2005)
37. TCA Special 2004 "Takarazuka 90 ~On the Road to 100~" (2004)
38. TCA Special 2003 "Dear Grand Theater" (2003)
39. The Wonder Three (1999)
40. Takarazuka Premiere Live 2018 (2018)