Snow Prince lyrics. "Snow Prince" is a choral song inspired by Claude Debussy's "Clair de lune", or the third movement of the "Suite bergamasque". The piece "Clair de lune" is also featured in the film. The "Snow Prince Gasshōdan" group is a temporary boy choir that was formed specially for this movie, and it is led by actor Shintaro Morimoto. The group comes under the management of Johnny Jr., a Japanese talent agency that specially trains male idols. "Snow Prince Gasshōdan" is made up of 10 boys, who together, had an average age of 10.5 years at the time of the filming.
Theatre de la Jeune Lune École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq school in Paris. Actors Steven Epp and Felicity Jones joined Jeune Lune in 1983. The company's name was inspired by the verses of a poem by Bertolt Brecht which reads, "As the people say, at the moon's change of phases / The new moon holds for one night long / The old moon in its arms". Serrand recalls starting the company as being "complete chaos, and that's what was great... We wanted to change theater but we didn't have a clue how to do it." For the first years of operation, Jeune Lune split