The Casino Folies, although it didn't last long because of competition with the theaters and movie houses of the Sixth District, produced many actors and actresses who later became famous in motion pictures. To compete with the movies, reviews tended to sensationalize the risqué and flamboyant, thus contributing to the pop cultural buzz phrase of interwar years: "ero-guro-nansensu" (erotic-grotesque-nonsense). Not much flesh was actually shown on stage, but the suggestion was hyped. Kawabata notes that "The Japan Hall thought of the effective name Dance Eroero Team, and even the Shôchikuza had to reply, in big black letters, with Dance Ero. "Ero" was on all the billboards."

One of the most popular actresses of the 1930s was Mizunoe Takiko of the Shôchiku Theater Troupe, pictured here on a traditional battledore (a kind of paddle game). Like the male role players of the Takarazuka, she sported male garb and short hair. So-called moga (modern girls) of the Ginza had also been adopting short cuts and "masculine" behaviors while the most popular male film stars tended to affect softer, "effeminate" styles. How is this "modern"?