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RIP, Ninagawa Yukio
May. 15th, 2016 05:08 pmI came across some very sad news today while browsing a Japanese entertainment blog: director Ninagawa Yukio, famous for his productions of Shakespeare plays in Japanese, recently passed away at the age of 80, due to pneumonia. I had blogged about him twice before, and I remember being concerned that he was suffering health problems during the filming of the NHK Applause! documentary last year. So the news doesn't really come as a suprise, but it's still a great loss, for both his family and the theater world.
I actually became interested in Ninagawa thanks to Bronze Ribbon's Haru wo Daiteita fic More Than Kin and Less Than Kind, in which the real Ninagawa was the inspiration for the director in the story. It's perhaps an odd way to have come across Ninagawa's works, but I'm glad that I did.
I've been meaning to place an order with CD Japan to buy a few other things, and now I really must order at least one of Ninagawa's dvds. I've been meaning to do it for some time, but had been putting it off because they're rather expensive and I couldn't make up my mind which one to get. Maybe I should go with Hamlet, since that was his favorite play, according to the Booked for Japan documentary. Even the short clips I've seen of his plays in the documentaries were stunning, and I really want to watch at least one of his productions in full--sadly, it will have to be on dvd since I'll never have the chance to see one live.
I actually became interested in Ninagawa thanks to Bronze Ribbon's Haru wo Daiteita fic More Than Kin and Less Than Kind, in which the real Ninagawa was the inspiration for the director in the story. It's perhaps an odd way to have come across Ninagawa's works, but I'm glad that I did.
I've been meaning to place an order with CD Japan to buy a few other things, and now I really must order at least one of Ninagawa's dvds. I've been meaning to do it for some time, but had been putting it off because they're rather expensive and I couldn't make up my mind which one to get. Maybe I should go with Hamlet, since that was his favorite play, according to the Booked for Japan documentary. Even the short clips I've seen of his plays in the documentaries were stunning, and I really want to watch at least one of his productions in full--sadly, it will have to be on dvd since I'll never have the chance to see one live.
