If you watched America?s Got Talent in 2015, you?re sure to remember the energy and ingenuity of the Japanese dance group Siro-A.

A colorful welcome on the stage of That Zentertainment, Asakusa, Tokyo
Fast-forward to 2017, and the amazingly lithe, imaginative and fun-loving boys from Sendai are now working their on-stage sorcery - with a big dash of comedy, dance, acrobatics and traditional Japaneseness - at the Rox 1 complex in Asakusa, Tokyo.

That's ZENtertainment is a half-hour show that takes place several times a day just four minutes? walk from the very famous Sensoji Temple in Asakusa.

My partner and I attended the 9pm show on Monday night. The venue is the Yumemachi Restaurant Theater on the 4th floor of the Rox 1 building. It?s a big, high-ceilinged space with tables that you sit around over drinks and snacks.
Model of old Asakusa, Asakusa Rokku Yumemachi Theater foyer.
Antique advertisement collection in the foyer of the That's ZENtertainment venue
The foyer has the added attraction of a huge display of authentic antique commercial signs, and scale models of the Asakusa townscape from before it was destroyed by the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake.

 The That's ZENtertainment atmosphere is laid back and fun from the word go, with a friendly clown welcoming you in, singing me a snatch of a Maori song when he learned I was from New Zealand(!), taking our photo (cleverly incorporated later into the show) and making us feel very welcome and excited about what was to com...