Japan's all-women Takarazuka Revue musical theater troupe announced Friday that its Star Troupe will debut a production inspired by a Taiwanese puppet show in its third tour to the island later this year.

Tomotsugu Ogawa, president of the Takarazuka Revue Company, told a press conference in Taipei that the upcoming performance, which will run from Oct. 20 to 28 in Taipei and from Nov. 2 to 5 in the southern city of Kaohsiung, will consist of two parts.

The first part is a brand new production, Thunderbolt Fantasy, inspired by Taiwan's Pili glove puppetry shows, a modern version of traditional Taiwanese puppet theater known as budaixi. Pili means thunderbolt in Chinese.

Chris Huang, chairman of Pili International Multimedia which produces the puppet show, told the same press conference that he felt honored to work with Takarazuka.

"Takarazuka is a century-old Japanese theater troupe with a national treasure status and budaixi is also a century-old Taiwanese puppet show," Huang said. "Mixing the two century-old cultural forms creates something beyond limitation."

The second part is a musical, Killer Rouge, where the top star of the company's Star Troupe, Yuzuru Kurenai, who plays a male character, can showcase her "personal charm."

When asked by the media to describe her "personal charm," Kurenai laughed and said it was a tough question to answer because some of her qualities are clear to others but not to herself.

However, as a performer, Kurenai said she has always wanted to get as close to the audience as possible.

The October engagement will be Kurenai's second performance in Taiwan but the first as the top star of the Star Troupe.

A series of 14 performances will be held at the National Theaters in Taipei, which seats up to 1,500 people, and six more at the Kaohsiung Cultural Center, which can accommodate up to 1,700 people. Tickets for the highly anticipated performances will go on sale on March 7.

Founded in 1913 by Ichizo Kobayashi, the founder of Hankyu Railways, the troupe was composed of a band of singing and dancing girls to help sell more train tickets on Kobayashi's company train line at the hot-spring resort of Takarazuka.

The troupe on average attracts 2.7 million Japanese each year, entertaining families through good times and bad for a century.

It made its first overseas tour in 1938 and has so far performed in 18 countries and territories, including China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It performed for the first time in Taiwan in 2013 to sold-out crowds. It has received many requests to perform again in Taiwan following its second visit in August 2015.