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  • Braggart Samurai (1991 Video)

    Director
    Mansaku Nomura

    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.

  • Macbeth (1991 Television)

    Director
    Giles Block

    Giles Block’s production of Macbeth recorded by Japanese television with Toru Emori (Macbeth) and Rei Asami (Lady Macbeth).

  • Romeo and Juliet (1989 Video)

    Series
    Bolshoi at the Bolshoi
    Director
    Motoko Sakaguchi

    The Prokofiev ballet performed by the Bolshoi Ballet. Choreography by Yuro Grigorovich from original choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky. Irek Mukhamedov and Natalya Bessmertnova dance the title roles.

  • Hamlet After Shakespeare (1987 Audio)

    Series
    Guest Conductor

    Compositions by Alfred Reed for wind ensemble. The Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra is conducted by the composer. Recorded at the Fumon Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Contents: Texana (3:52); Prelude and capriccio (7:00);...

  • Ran (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Akira Kurosawa
    Producer
    Serge Silberman

    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...

  • A.K. (1985 Film)

    Director
    Chris Marker
    Producer
    Serge Silberman

    Documentary, directed by Chris Marker, which records his days on location with Akira Kurosawa during the filming of RAN. Narrated by Robert Kramer, the film is divided into segments such as battles’,...

  • Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru (1960 Film)

    aka: The Bad Sleep Well

    Director
    Akira Kurosawa
    Producer
    Akira Kurosawa; Tomoyuki Tanaka

    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...

  • Kumonosu-Jo (1957 Film, Video)

    aka: Throne of Blood

    Director
    Akira Kurosawa
    Producer
    Akira Kurosawa

    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...