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Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden

Musical from Chaos 3: Hoa-ky

(P-Vine, PVDV-34) (Japan) (DVD)


DVD: NTSC, region free, color, 94 minutes

Includes 22 episodes (all in Japanese) consisting of short cuts of "Telephone-box Part" (women talking on mobile phones at night), "Mayflower Part" (three women talking), "AMERIKA Part" (men in a room), "Interview Part" (Gen Natsume inteviewing Naruyoshi Kikuchi), and "DCPRG Live Part"

Also includes a bonus video (15:40) of Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden's live performance of "Fox Trot"

DCPRG Live Part

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden
Naruyoshi Kikuchi: conductor, CD-J, keyboard
Jason Shalton: guitar
Koki Takai: guitar
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums
Nobuo Fujii: drums
Masaki Kurihara: bass
Kenta Tsugami: soprano saxophone
Yoshihiro Goseki: tenor saxophone
Masayasu Tzuboguchi: keyboard, synthesizer
Gen Ogimi: percussion
Masaki Yoshimi: tabla
Takero Sekijima: tuba
Taisei Aoki: trombone
Shiro Sasaki: trumpet

Live shooting by Gen Natsume, Momoko Maeshima, Kiyoshi Takanashi, Taro Maruyama, and Shin Kanehira at Milk, Tokyo, December 23, 2005; Shibuya Club Quattro, Tokyo, June 22, 2006; Nagoya Club Quattro, June 28, 2006 and April 14, 2007; Bigcat, Osaka, June 29, 2006; Hiroshima Club Quattro, June 30, 2006 and April 16, 2007; Kyoto University, July 1 and 2, 2006; Shibuya O-East, Tokyo, July 4 and October 9, 2006 and February 16 and April 25, 2007; Enn, Sendai, July 8, 2006; Mt. Fuji Calling, Yamanakako, October 1, 2006; Unit, Tokyo, December 22, 2006; Shinsaibashi Club Quattro, Osaka, April 15, 2007; and The Voodoo Lounge, Fukuoka, April 17, 2007

Recording engineers: Kenji Konishi and Shigeki Nakamura


Direction, screenplay, and editing by Gen Natsume
Visual effects by kanecomb and Kiyoshi Takanashi
Design by Shingo Ueki

Released in December 2007