KPR/Kaimaku Pennant Race is the thater company established in 2006 in Tokyo. 

Their first overseas tour in New York in 2009 successfully obtained good stage reviews and praises from various media, such as The New York Times and Time Out New York. In 2015, on the overseas tour to Tunisia and France, the works were “A contemporary theater work by the awesome actors” (Tuniscope/Tunisia), “This is a real artistic experience” (LaProvence/France), “If you see this shocking work, you cannot return to our earth anymore” (Theatrorama/France). The official invitation by Japan Society (New York, NY) in 2019 concluded their second tour to NY in the span of ten years as a grand success by bringing them about a five-star review on top of five different publications and has been keeping them winning many awards and further invitations.Their unique spatial composition and staging such as a huge toilet with 10,000 toilet paper rolls on the stage surrounding by all standing audiences (in Theater tram in Tokyo) as well as their street performances in the space suites in Shizuoka and overseas has been receiving reviews and gathering attention from the art industry all around the world. Their genre-bending view has been described as "hyper-nonsensical absurdist philosophical comedy" by director and translator Yoji Aoi, who has been participating them as a translator and a dramaturg since 2015.