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Presented by Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan and The DC Anime Club Present: Summer Anime Series Friday Anime Screenings throughout the Summer at the JICC Friday June 27 6:30pm Dragonball Z: Fusion Reborn One of the most popular and longest running comic book and anime series ever, Dragonball, and its recent incarnation Dragonball Z, has captured a worldwide fanbase with its colorful characters and combination of action and humor. Fusion Reborn is the twelfth movie in the Dragonball Z series and the first one theatrically released in the United States. This film follows former enemies and now allies Goku and Vegeta as they battle the evil monster Janemba. Janemba has released evil energy across the earth causing the dead to rise. Can Goku and Vegeta unite to defeat their toughest foe yet? 1995 Japan rated PG 55 minutes Friday July 25 6:30pm Shinobi A live-action ninja movie featuring two rising stars of Japanese cinema- Joe Odagiri and Yukie Nakama. Shinobi is about two rival ninja clans, the Koga and the Iga, who have honed their skills to super human levels. The clans co-exist in peace through a precarious truce in Ieyasu Tokugawa’s Edo era Japan. When Lord Tokugawa grows to fear the clans’ power, he pits them against each other in hopes of destroying them both. But the offspring of the clans’ chieftains have fallen in love and have plans to unite the clans when they inherit the thrones. This visually stunning martial arts action film has been a hit with audiences around the globe. The story of Shinobi comes from the book “The Koga Ninja Scrolls” which was adapted into a comic book in 2003. 2005 Japan rated PG 107 minutes Friday August 29 6:30pm Death Note A live action film based on the extremely popular manga, starring Tatsuya Fujiwara from the Battle Royale films. The Death Note is a notebook of the gods of death. Anyone whose name is written in it will die. A mischievous death god named Ryuk decides to put his death note into the hands of humans and see what happens. Luckily the death note is found by the pure hearted Light Yagami who uses the death note’s power to kill off powerful criminals. Light soon finds himself being pursued by private investigator L who is in search of the cause of the criminal’s mysterious deaths. 2006 Japan rated PG-13 126 minutes For more information on the DC Anime Club please see: www.dcanimeclub.org All film showings are free and open to the public. Reservations are required. RSVP to [email protected] Seating is limited and granted on a first come, first served basis Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan・ 3 Lafayette Center・1155 21st St NW・Washington DC 20036・202-238-6949・ www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc Accessible by Metro: Farragut North, Farragut West and Dupont Circle .

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Some Japanese Shakespeare Productions in 2014-15
Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance vol. 14 (29), 2016; DOI: 10.1515/mstap-2016-0013 ∗ Shoichiro Kawai Some Japanese Shakespeare Productions in 2014-15 Abstract: This essay focuses on some Shakespeare productions in Japan during 2014 and 2015. One is a Bunraku version of Falstaff, for which the writer himself wrote the script. It is an amalgamation of scenes from The Merry Wives of Windsor and those from Henry IV. It was highly reputed and its stage design was awarded a 2014 Yomiuri Theatre Award. Another is a production of Much Ado about Nothing produced by the writer himself in a theatre-in-the-round in his new translation. Another is a production of Macbeth arranged and directed by Mansai Nomura the Kyogen performer. All the characters besides Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were performed by the three witches, suggesting that the whole illusion was produced by the witches. It was highly acclaimed worldwide. Another is a production of Hamlet directed by Yukio Ninagawa, with Tatsuya Fujiwara in the title role. It was brought to the Barbican theatre. There were also many other Shakespeare productions to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. Keywords: Shakespeare, adaptation, Bunraku, Kyogen, Falstaff, Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, Hamlet, Japanese traditional theatre, Yukio Ninagawa Bunraku Falstaff In the year 2014, there were many Shakespearean productions in Japan to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. Among them was a Bunraku (Japanese traditional puppet theatre) version of Falstaff, for which I wrote the playscript in the pseudo-classical, rhythmical Japanese called gidayu-bushi.
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