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  • Henry IV (2013 Video)

    aka: Ninagawa X Shakespeare Xi

    Series
    Sai No Kuni Shakespeare
    Director
    Yukio Ninagawa

    3-disc set. Yukio Ninagawa’s staging of Henry IV, Parts I & II. Cast unknown (11/2014).

  • Troilus and Cressida/Cymbeline (2013 Video)

    aka: Ninagawa X Shakespeare X

    Series
    Sai No Kuni Shakespeare
    Director
    Yukio Ninagawa

    3-DVD set. The third disc contains bonus features, most notably twenty-one minutes of footage from behind the scenes of the all-male Troilus and Cressida. Cast for Cymbeline unknown.

  • Coriolanus (2012 Video)

    Director
    Motoi Miura

    Video recording of the Chiten company’s staging of Coriolanus for the Globe to Globe season. Directed by Motoi Miura with Dai Ishida in the title role. All other roles were performed by a chorus of four....

  • Manutsu No Yoru No Yume (2009 Film)

    aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

    Director
    Yuji Nakae
    Producer
    Shiro Sasaki

    Feature film. An adaptation of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Yuriko (Shibamoto) is a Tokyo office worker who decides to give up big city life and return home to Yokatomi Island in Okinawa to avoid her...

  • Osaka Hamureto (2009 Film)

    aka: Osaka Hamlet

    Director
    Fujiro Mitsuishi
    Producer
    Hidehiro Ito; Fujiro Mitsuishi; Masatsugu Asahi; Junichi Matsushita

    Melodrama about a troubled Osaka teenager who, following the death of his father, begins to see himself as Hamlet when an enigmatic uncle takes charge of his dysfunctional family,

  • The Merchant of Venice, The (2008 Television)

    aka: Merchant of Venice, The

    Series
    Mirai Seiki Shakespeare
    Director
    Ken Nikai

    An contemporary adaptation of The Merchant of Venice directed by Ken Nikai for Japanese television.

  • Makubesu/Korioreinasu (2008 Video)

    aka: Ninagawa X Shakespeare V Macbeth Coriolanus

    Series
    Sai No Kuni Shakespeare
    Director
    Yukio Ninagawa; Iwasawa Kiyoshi

    3-disc set. Productions of Macbeth and Coriolanus directed by Yukio Ninagawa, and a third disc which contains special features including biographies of cast and director and an interview with Ninagawa...

  • Romeo X Juliet (2007 Television)

    aka: Romeo and Juliet Romeo X Jurietto

    Director
    Fumitoshi Oizaki

    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)...

  • Juuni-Ya (2007 Television)

    aka: Twelfth Night

    Director
    Yukio Ninagawa

    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.

  • Okini Mesumama (2007 Video)

    aka: As You Like It Ninagawa X Shakespeare IV

    Series
    Sai No Kuni Shakespeare
    Director
    Yukio Ninagawa

    Video recording of the play first directed by Yukio Ninagawa at the Saitama Arts Center in 2004. Role names not known (5/2009).