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Kishida Prize For Drama
The is a Japanese theater award given by the publisher Hakusuisha in honor of the playwright Kunio Kishida. It was begun in 1955 to honor new playwrights, and is known in Japan as the gateway to recognition for contemporary playwrights. List of winners 1955–1960 * 1955 - Not awarded **Honorable mention: Seiichi Yashiro * 1956 - Kiichi Ohashi for and Kinji Obata for * 1957 - Not awarded **Honorable mention: * 1958 - Hotta Hotta Kiyomi for * 1959 - Not awarded **Honorable mention: Yoshiyuki Fukuda and of Gen'ichi Hara and Masayuki Hiroda * 1960 - Masaru Kobayashi for and Hisako Hayasaka for 1961–1970 * 1961 - Not awarded * 1962 - Ken Miyamoto for and Shuichiro Yagi for (''The Beggar Docks and Six Sons'') and (''The Conveyor Belt That Never Stops'') * 1963 - Masakazu Yamazaki for * 1964 - Hitomi Kakuhiko for and Ryuichi Suga for and Yoshiyuki Fukuda for * 1965 - Not awarded * 1966 - Koji Kawamata for and Masayuki Hirota for * 1968 - Minoru Betsuyaku for and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunio Kishida
Kunio Kishida (岸田 國士, Kishida Kunio, 2 November 1890 – 5 March 1954) was a Japanese playwright, dramatist, novelist, lecturer, acting coach, theatre critic, translator, and proponent of Shingeki ("New Theatre"/”New Drama"). Kishida spearheaded the modernization of Japanese dramaturgy and transformed Japanese theatre acting. He was a staunch advocate for the theatre to operate as a dual artistic and literary space. At the beginning of the Meiji era, efforts to modernize the Japanese theatre became a critical topic for Japanese playwrights, and these endeavors persisted well into the 1920s before Kishida wrote his first plays. However, his predecessors' attempts did not come to fruition, and Kishida is recognized as the first playwright to successfully reform the narrative, thematic, and performative trajectories of Japanese playwriting and acting through Shingeki. Kishida was known for his vehement opposition to traditional Japanese ''kabuki, noh'', and ''shimpa'' the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzuki Matsuo
is a Japanese theatre director, actor, novelist, and screenwriter. Career Born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Suzuki started his own theatre troupe, Otona Keikaku, in 1988 and was joined by such talent as Kankuro Kudo and Sadao Abe. He won the Kishida Prize for Drama in 1997 for ''Fankī! Uchū wa mieru tokoro made shika nai''. In addition to acting and directing, he also writes, and won the Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year in 2008 for '' Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad''. As a novelist, he has twice been nominated for the Akutagawa Prize. Selected filmography As director *''Otakus in Love'' (2004) *''Female'' (2005) segment "Yoru no Shita (Licking Nights)" *''Welcome to the Quiet Room'' (2007) *'' Jinuyo Saraba: Kamuroba Mura e'' (2015) *'' 108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba'' (2019) As actor Film * ''Ichi the Killer'' (2001) * ''Be with You'' (2004) * '' Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims'' (2005) * ''Forbidden Siren'' (2006) * '' The Shock Labyrint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuro Tanino
Kuro Tanino (タニノクロウ) (born 1976) is a Japanese theatre director and playwright. Born into a family of psychiatrists, Tanino also himself trained and worked as a psychiatrist before turning to theatre. He founded the theatre group Niwa Gekidan Penino (literally "garden theatre company Penino") in 2000, and he writes, directs and designs all productions. He is also a painter and sculptor. His plays are highly surrealistic, filled with bizarre characters and creatures, influenced by Juro Kara. He prefers to use storyboards to writing regular play texts. The design is often very meticulous and colorful, with strange, incongruous elements crammed into small spaces. Influenced by Marcel Duchamp's method of creating miniatures of his work and carrying them around with him, Tanino considers his sets and plays to be like fully formed pictures, arranging performers like parts of an installation or tableaux. His series of "Hakobune" (ark) plays were staged at his apartment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukiko Motoya
is a Japanese novelist, playwright, theatre director, and former voice actress. She has won numerous Japanese literary and dramatic awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, the Kishida Kunio Drama Award, and the Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award. Her work has been adapted multiple times for film. Early life and education Motoya was born in Hakusan, Ishikawa. As a child she read mystery stories by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edogawa Ranpo, as well as horror manga. After completing high school, Motoya moved to Tokyo to study acting, and won a voice acting role in the Hideaki Anno anime adaptation of ''Kare Kano'', but switched her focus to writing after a teacher praised a short play Motoya wrote for the school's graduation ceremony. She founded her own theater company, called Gekidan Motoyo Yukiko (Motoya Yukiko Theater Company), in 2000, and began writing and staging her own plays. She a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiki Okada
is a Japanese playwright, theater director, novelist, and founder of the theatrical company chelfitsch. He is known for "his use of hyper-colloquial Japanese and his unique choreography."Program for ''Five Days in March'', On the Boards (Seattle), January 28–February 1, 2009. Life and career Personal life Born in Yokohama in 1973, Okada attended Nagatadai Elementary and Nagata Secondary School there. In 1992, he started attending Keio University under the Faculty of Business and Commerce.Interview by Performing Arts in 2005 Retrieved on 5 December 2011. Being a fan of and |
Kankurō Kudō
is a Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, director, actor and member of the theater company ''Otona Keikaku''. He won the 'Best Screenplay' award at the 2002 Japanese Academy Awards for '' Go'', which explores problems faced by people of Korean-heritage living in Japan. He acted in ''Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World'', and is also guitarist in the Japanese Comedy Rock Band Group Tamashii. Selected filmography Director *''Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san'' (2005) *'' Shonen Merikensack'' (2008) Writer (Movie Screenplays) *'' Go'' (2001) *''Ping Pong'' (2002) *''Drugstore Girl'' (2003) *'' Iden & Tity'' (2003) *'' Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Japan Series'' (2003) *'' 69'' (2004) *''Zebraman'' (2004) *''Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san'' (2005) *'' Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series'' (2006) *''Maiko Haaaan!!!'' (2007) *'' Shonen Merikensack'' (2008) *'' Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City'' (2010) *'' Too Young To Die! (2016) Writer (Television) * ''Ikebukuro West Gate Park'' (2000) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuki Nakashima
is a Japanese playwright, novelist, contributing editor and screenwriter. In addition to working on ''Getter Robo'', he is a fan of Ken Ishikawa. He took pride in being a "Getter Person". This was the same Futabasha's chief producer and production representative worked on each productions. Screenwriting credits Manga *'' Getter Robo Saga'' (Editor) * Kyomu Senki (Editor) Anime Series head writer denoted in bold *''Gurren Lagann'' (2007) *'' Oh! Edo Rocket'' (2007) *'' Nodame Cantabile: Finale'' (2010) *'' Kill la Kill'' (2013-2014) *'' Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song'' (2016) *'' BNA: Brand New Animal'' (2020) *''Back Arrow'' (2021) OVA * '' Re: Cutie Honey'' (2004) Anime films * ''Gurren Lagann: Childhood’s End'' (2008) * ''Gurren Lagann: The Lights in the Sky are Stars'' (2009) * '' Crayon Shin-chan: Intense Battle! Robo Dad Strikes Back'' (2014) * ''Batman Ninja'' (2018) * ''Promare'' (2019) Live action television Series head writer denoted in bold * ''Ultraman Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōki Mitani
is a Japanese playwright, screenwriter, actor and film director and was previously married to Japanese actress Satomi Kobayashi. He was named after ''Taihō Kōki'', the youngest sumo wrestler to become yokozuna. He studied dramatics at Nihon University. In an attempt to add his own character to his movies, as a director he takes most of his scenes with a one-scene=one-shot system, moving the camera around as opposed to cutting. He claims this comes from his experience in theatre, where there are no cuts. Mitani does not use a computer.Tanaka, Nobuko,Japan's Mr. Comedy, ''Japan Times'', June 2, 2012, p. 7 Early life Mitani liked watching TV dramas and puppetries of NHK in his childhood. He was especially interested in works of puppetry such as "Shin Hakkenden" () and '' Sangokushi'' (), jidaigeki dramas such as '' Tenka Gomen'' () and '' Tenka Dōdō'' (), and Taiga dramas such as ''Kaze to Kumo to Niji to. Throughout his life, he has expressed interest in works starring fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Nagai
is a Japanese playwright, stage director, and the co-founder and leader of the theater company Nitosha. She is known for adopting realism as her primary writing style. Two of her major works, and , both exemplify her utilization of realism. According to The Japan Foundation's Performing Arts Network,Pulvers 2006 Nagai is currently regarded as one of the most sought-after playwrights in Japan because of her "well-made plays," in which social issues are treated from a critical perspective. Life and work Early life Ai Nagai was born on October 16, 1951, in Tokyo, as the daughter of a painter and a member of the Communist Party, Kiyoshi Nagai.Boyd 1999, 175-176 Since her parents divorced when she was still young, she was raised by her father and her paternal grandmother, Shizu Nagai. Her father's connections with the theater world when she was young influenced her to take on a path to a theatrical career. In , the character Grandmother Nobu is modeled on Nagai's own grandmother. Als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōji Sakate (playwright)
is a contemporary Japanese playwright notable for his plays that frequently comment on social and political issues in Japan. His most prominent plays are ''The Attic'' (屋根裏 ''Yaneura'', 2002), ''Come Out'' (カムアウト ''Kamu auto'', 1989), ''Tokyo Trial'' (トーキョー裁判 ''Tōkyō saiban'', 1988), and ''Epitaph for the Whales'' (くじらの墓標 ''Kujira no bohyō'', 1993). In his works, he focuses on dramatizing real-life events, and also depicts the historical past. In 1983, he founded his own theater company called the Phosphorescence Troupe (燐光群 ''Rinkōgun''). Sakate is currently the president of the Japanese Playwrights Association, and the director of both the Japan Directors Association and Japanese Center of International Theater Institute. Biography Sakate was born in Okayama, Japan in 1962. He studied Japanese literature at Keiō University in Tokyo. During his time at Keiō University, he was inspired and learned from Tetsu Yamazaki, a second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiyuki Fukuda
is a Japanese playwright, screenwriter, and director. Remembered as one of the founding figures of the ''Angura'' ("underground") theatre movement in Japan, Fukuda also served as chairman of the Japan Directors Association from 2003 to 2007. Early life Yoshiyuki Fukuda was born Taizō Kōnosu in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo on October 21, 1931. After graduating from Azabu High School, he enrolled at the University of Tokyo where he graduated with a degree in French literature in 1954. While still in school, he co-wrote a play with playwright Asaya Fujita and staged it at the 1953 May Festival. After graduating, Fukuda briefly worked as a reporter for the Tokyo Times newspaper before joining the Mingei Theatre Company as an assistant director, later branching out into play writing under the guidance of his mentor Junji Kinoshita. Shingeki and Angura As a member of the ''Shingeki'' ("new theatre") movement, Fukuda's early works adopted a socialist realist stance, as reflect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Kishida
was a Japanese playwright and director. She wrote several plays about women and the problems they faced in a patriarchal society that run parallel with the second wave of the feminist movement in Japan. Even though she did not strictly identify herself as a feminist, she believed that the system of a male dominated society had to change in order for women to gain equal rights as their male counterpart. Biography Early life and career Kishida was born in 1946 in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan. In 1974, Kishida graduated from the Law School of Chuo University. She was qualified for the bar, but instead chose to join Shūji Terayama’s theater company Tenjō Sajiki (Ceiling Gallery). She collaborated with Terayama, who she viewed as a mentor, in writing ''Shintokumaru'' (''Poison Boy''), ''The Audience Seats'', and ''Lemmings''. Even though Terayama had collaborated with several people, Kishida was the only one in his troupe to have collaborated with him several times. It is not cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
