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Feature film. A Japanese version of King Lear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan. An old man, now a warlord, cedes his kingdom to his eldest son and starts a power struggle...
Kurosawa directed three adaptations from Shakespeare. Two were recreated as samurai movies: Macbeth became THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), and King Lear inspired his last major film, the epic RAN (1985). THE BAD...
The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...
Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of the Rain and Moon) is based on a pair of 18th century ghost stories by Ueda Akinari. In 16th century Japan, amidst the pandemonium of civil war, potter Genjuro and...
Videorecording of the production directed by Yukio Ninagawa with Shinobo Otake and Toshiaki Karasawa as the Macbeths.
A Kyogen adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Mansaku Nomura and adapted by Yasunari Takahashi. An introductory talk (in Japanese) precedes the play.
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of The Ninagawa Company’s 2004 production of Titus Andronicus with Kotaro Yoshida as Titus.
Japanese anime series very loosely based on Romeo and Juliet along with numerous references and characters from other Shakespearian plays. On a stormy night, the Montagues of Neo Verona (an aerial city)...
Giles Block’s production of Macbeth recorded by Japanese television with Toru Emori (Macbeth) and Rei Asami (Lady Macbeth).
A televised version of Ninagawa’s 2005 Kabuki production of Twelfth Night transposed to 14th century Japan and set on the sea-coast of the Kii Province.
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