NHK World's Applause!: Yukio Ninagawa

NHK World has a lot of great shows in English about Japan; my local PBS affiliate regularly airs several of them. Awhile back, there was a special program called Applause! that documented the making of a production by director Yukio Ninagawa's Saitama Gold Theater, an acting troupe made up of elderly amateur actors. My Haru readers may recall that I blogged about Ninagawa last year because he was the inspiration behind the fictional Ninagawa in bronze_ribbons' More Than Kin and Less Than Kind, and I ended up using the same character in my Haru-Shakespeare fics.

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