
Rio Asumi
Acting
Biography
Rio Asumi (明日海 りお, June 26, 1985) is a Japanese actress. She is former Top Star of the Flower Troupe in the Takarazuka Revue Company (2014-2019). She is affiliated with the talent agency KEN ON Inc.
Known For

Nagumo Shuuji, a social studies teacher at Mie Prefecture’s Etsuzan Senior High School, was a former baseball player up until university when he quit after sustaining an injury. Thereafter, he worked as a sports trainer but returned to university at 32 years old in order to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher. However, his peaceful daily life goes through a change after he’s appointed to be the advisor of his school’s baseball club that is on the verge of abolition.
Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle

In the end of Meiji era, Takei Chiyo was born in a poor family in Osaka, and was sent to a theatre tea room as a servant when she was 9 years old. There, she was attracted by the world of theatre comedy. She grows up to be an actor and marries to Amami Ippei , but the war broke out and she was forced to stay away from acting for a while. However, when she comes back again, her acting in a radio drama impresses many people and makes herself one of the leading actors in western Japan.
Ochoyan

Tatsuya Fujiwara plays a talented detective who trades hardened criminals for troubled teenagers. Placed in an unruly public junior high school, he gets to work contending with the many problems it faces and uncovers some more serious ones. While the detective tries to operate in the hard-line way he knows best, he finds himself confronted by a skeptical and fiery teacher, played by award winning actress Yoko Maki.
School Cop

The elite DCU fights crime underwater, but just like the turbulent oceans, there is more going on under the surface than meets the eye
DCU

The story is set in a big hospital which is infiltrated and taken over by an armed group wearing devil masks. Musashi Saburo a police officer on leave of absence has to save the hostages within a set time limit.
Captured Hospital

A struggling comedy trio nearing a critical turning point finds an unexpected connection with a waitress who becomes a quiet supporter of their journey.
Life's Punchline

An original medical murder mystery surrounds an unknown killer coccus (bacteria), that leaves no trace in the victim's body, which enables it to be used as the perfect weapon to kill. Fujimaki Tatsuomi is a pathologist working at the Pathlogy department at Meikyo Medical University Hospital. He's looked down upon by the other staff around him, and his relationship with Maho his wife, a former nurse, has cooled down. After a patient's suspicious death, he makes a new discovery; when the deadly bacteria "Gift" invades the body, the patient soon dies, but the "Gift" leaves no trace thereafter, enabling it to be used as the perfect weapon to kill. As a result of this discovery, Fujimaki's life dramatically changes. While searching for a way to treat his ailing wife's heart disease, he becomes embroiled in a conspiracy surrounding the killer bacteria "Gift."
Great Gift

While Yuzu Hodaishi (Riho Sayashi) tried to find a decent job, she became hooked on a novel about yoghurt and became a big fan of the bacteria lactobacillus bulgaricus that appeared in the novel. Meanwhile, I is a lactobacillus bulgaricus and sees Yuzu Hodaishi. I jump out of the package of yoghurt and follow her as an invisible presence. After a year of trying to find a job, Yuzu Hodaishi finally gets hired by a food company in Meiwa and gets assigned to work for the company in Osaka. At first, she worked with the supermarket staff, but she was transferred to the PR department at the head office in Osaka. Her senior there is Itsumi Midori (Rio Asumi). Yuzu Hodaishi struggles with her life in unfamiliar Osaka and also her work in the PR department. She then gets assigned to work on a magazine article for Meiwa Yogurt's 50th anniversary. (Source: AsianWiki) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Reiwa Bulgaria Yogurt" (令和ブルガリアヨーグルト) by Miyagi Ayako (宮木あや子).
Oshi wo Meshiagare: Koho Girl no Maroyakana Hibi

A musical based on "Poe no Ichizoku"
Musical Gothic 『Poe no Ichizoku』

Recording of the Takarazuka Revue's 2008 Moon Troupe production of the musical "Me and My Girl."
Me and My Girl

Stage adaptation of the manga and anime "Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu".
Musical 「Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu」

Jack is an English gentleman who pretends to be his own brother, named Ernest, so he can enjoy himself in the city without besmirching his reputation at his country estate. Unfortunately, he's just fallen in love with a young woman who insists that she can only marry a man named Ernest--and when Jack's best friend (Algy) goes to Jack's country estate pretending to be this same brother Ernest, he falls in love with Jack's ward, who similarly feels that Ernest is the perfect name for a husband...
Ernest in Love

Harvey Rockwood, a world-renowned botanist, comes across bad weather and finds himself enveloped by a dense fog. Under the blanket of the mist, he hears the sound of the wind, the calls of wild birds, and then a mysterious singing voice in a garden where he meets Elu, the Spirit of the Blue Rose. Elu informs Harvey that they shall meet once again in the mist...
A Fairy Tale: The Spirit of the Blue Rose

Special performance.
Takarazuka Special 2016 ~Music Succession to Next~

Set at "Studio 54", a discothèque in New York that captivated celebrities all over the world from the latter half of the 1970s to the 1980s. A musical production about a runaway papparazzo following a scandal and his target, an up-and-coming actress, who connect with each other after a certain incident. Holly Ashley is a freelance journalist who supplies "scoop" photos and gossip articles to tabloids and evening magazines. One night, a party is held at Studio 54 celebrating the release of rock star Z-BOY's new album. Holly gets an exclusive story on the up-and-coming actress Giselle Morgan, who is rumored to be Z-BOY's lover. But Z-BOY's agency interferes with the article being published. Holly needs money — to give back to the orphanage where he was raised. Desperate, he chases after the pair and gets involved in an incident...
STUDIO 54

Takarazuka special performance.
Takarazuka Revue 100th Anniversary Finale Event "Takarazuka Special 2014 -Thank you for 100 years-"

Set on the fictional Mediterranean island of Callista on the eve of the outbreak of the French Revolution, the play depicts the struggles of a young officer who is torn between love, friendship, and his love for his homeland.
Embraced by the Seas of Calista

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been read and loved by people all over the world since it was first published in 1865. In a mysterious underground land called Fantasmagoria, a young Lewis Carroll is working as a "storyteller" for the Red Queen. When he meets a girl named Alice who wanders in from the real world, they must take part in a battle between dreams and reality... A story of love and adventure unfolds with the hero and heroine, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat and other familiar characters — a fantasy musical production colored with pop and style.
Alice's Lover ~Alice in Underground Wonderland~

"ROME AT DAWN" is a Takarazuka adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Rome at Dawn/Les Bijoux Brillants

At the end of the 19th century, in Belle Époque Paris. Colette, who grew up in a rural town, marries Willy, a popular writer fourteen years her senior, and steps into the glamorous world of high society. Noticing her talent, Willy has her write novels as a ghostwriter, and the Claudine series becomes a huge hit. However, the author’s name is her husband’s. While struggling with both the joy and the conflict of creation, Colette forges her own path forward.