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Prominent Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke admits to helping his parents to end their lives with sleeping drugs, in a suspected family suicide pact prior to the publication of a magazine report accusing him of sexual abuse and harassment.

One of Japan's best-known kabuki actors was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of assisting his mother's suicide, local media said, after both parents were found unconscious at his home last month.In May, rescue workers found Ichikawa's 76-year-old father -- also a kabuki actor -- and his 75-year-old mother unconscious at his home in the capital.

　歌舞伎俳優・市川海老蔵（４３）が２０日、都内で巡業公演「秋の特別公演　古典への誘い」（９月４～２７日、札幌文化芸術劇場　ｈｉｔａｒｕほか）の取材会を開いた。　２０１２年から始まった全国巡業で、今年は１６会場２０公演を予定。演目は江戸時代の仙台藩伊達家のお家騒動を題材にした「三升先代萩（みますせんだいはぎ）」で、海老蔵は我が子を犠牲にして忠義を尽くす乳人政岡ら７役を早替わりで勤める。

　壱太郎演じる大学生の「先輩」は、同じクラブの後輩「黒髪の乙女」（久保史緒里）に恋をする。偶然を装って話しかけるなど、「なるべく彼女の目に留まるようにする作戦」（ナカメ作戦）をけなげに実行するなか、2人は奇妙な騒動に巻き込まれていく。 　現代の京都を舞台にしながらも、そこかしこにファンタジーの要素がちりばめられた物語。森見登美彦の人気小説を原作に、京都拠点の劇団「ヨーロッパ企画」代表の上田誠が脚本・...