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5 unusual facts about Kabuki


Faubion Bowers

While on his way to Indonesia in 1940, he visited Tokyo's Kabuki-za where he watched the famous Kanadehon Chūshingura kabuki play, and was very moved by kabuki as an art form.

Namiki Gohei

Namiki Gohei was the name of four Japanese Kabuki actors and playwrights.

Peggy Moffitt

During the 1960s, she was muse for fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, and developed a signature style that featured heavy, Kabuki-like makeup and an asymmetrical hair cut.

Ronald Cavaye

An expert on the kabuki theatre of Japan, since 1982 he has been a translator/narrator for the Earphone Guide in use at Tokyo's Kabuki-za and National Theatres.

Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl

The ensuing love triangle leads Keiko to seek the assistance of her father who, unbeknown to his daughter, moonlights as a Kabuki-clad mad scientist with the school nurse as his assistant.


Brain Donor

Wearing full make-up in the kabuki style of early KISS, the band's curious aims are said to be a desire to combine Van Halen-esque heavy metal with garage rock in the style of Blue Cheer, and Japanese bands High Rise and Mainliner.

Donald Shively

Most notable among his works covering popular culture in the Edo period of Japan is the translation of The Love Suicides at Amijima, a famous kabuki play written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon.

Goshaku Somegoro

Goshaku Somegoro (ja:五尺染五郎) is a fictional hero made popular in Japanese kabuki theatre in the play Koi moyô furisode myoto (ja: 恋模様振袖妹背).

Great Kabuki

Kabuki would sometimes be done in the early 80s by another wrestler, Magic Dragon(Masked Wrestler who teamed with Kabuki in WCCW).

Kabuki's battles against Adams was billed as the battle of the superkicks, as ring announcer Bill Mercer often asked which kick was better: Adams' superkick or Kabuki's thrust kick.

Higashi-ginza Station

In the area are the Kabuki-za, the headquarters of Nissan Motors, the Shinbashi Enbujō (a theater owned by Shochiku), the Tōgeki (a Shochiku cinema), the Electric Power Development Company, and the Courtyard by Marriott Tokyo Ginza Hotel.

Hiroyasu Sasaki

After returning to Japan he took over the Japan Mime Studio where he incorporated older more established movement based theatre forms of his country, such as Noh, Kyogen, Bunraku, Kabuki and Japanese traditional dance, into his work and teaching of mime.

Ichikawa Danjūrō I

His many influences include the pioneering of the aragoto style of acting which came to be largely associated with Edo kabuki and with Danjūrō and his successors in the Ichikawa Danjūrō line.

Jumping Flash! 2

A gigantic alien invader known as Captain Kabuki (voiced by Lorelei King) descends upon Little Muu and starts taking it apart, piece by piece, just as Aloha himself had once tried to do to Crater Planet.

Konpira Grand Theatre

"The Kanamaru-za: Japan's Oldest Kabuki Theatre." Asian Theatre Journal, vol.

Kylie / Fashion

The book was curated by William Baker, Kylie’s acclaimed creative director, and introduced by Jean Paul Gaultier, the book also features specially written texts by some of the most important designers and stylists Kylie has worked with throughout her career, including Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, Christian Louboutin, Julien Macdonald, Stella McCartney, Laudomia Pucci, make-up artist Kabuki and photographer Stéphane Sednaoui.

Leonard Pronko

Pronko's sabbatical to Japan and points west of there in 1963-64 brought about a change in his research as he began to study Asian theatres and their impact in the West, resulting in Theatre East and West, 1967, U. of California Press, and Guide to Japanese Drama, 1973, 1984, as well as a number of published translations of kabuki plays to add to his list of translations of several articles by Ionesco and seven or eight plays by Alfonso Sastre.

Mini Histeria

Mini Psicosis pinned Mini Kabuki, allowing their second, referee El Tirantes to shave the head of Bobby Lee.

Morita-za

The Morita-za (森田座・守田座), also known later as the Shintomi-za (新富座), was one of the major Kabuki theaters in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) during the Edo period and into the beginning of the 20th century.

Namiki Gohei

Namiki Gohei I (1747-1808) was a prolific kabuki playwright and actor.

Narita-san

But the person most responsible for promoting and enriching Narita-san was Ichikawa Danjūrō I (1660–1704), one of the most influential actors of the golden age of kabuki.

Oedo Sukeroku Taiko

The name of the group comes from the former name for Tokyo, Edo, and a main character named Sukeroku Hanakawado in a kabuki play called Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura.

Onoe Shoroku II

Onoe Shoroku II (March 28, 1913 – June 25, 1989) is the stage name for Yutaka Fujima a Japanese kabuki actor who specialized in female roles.

Panasonic Globe Theatre

Guest companies and artists have included the British Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Ingmar Bergman, Peter Brook, Barry Kyle and Robert Lepage, as well as such Kabuki stars as Bando Tamasaburo (Lady Macbeth), and Ichikawa Somegoro (Kabuki Hamlet).

Sakata

Sakata Tōjūrō, stage name taken on by a number of Kabuki actors

Sakata Tōjūrō

Sakata Tōjūrō I (1646–1709) - Originated the wagoto form; innovator of Genroku kabuki.

Shibaraku

The plot centers around the figure of Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa, who has become the stereotypical bombastic hero of the kabuki stage, with red-and-white striped makeup and strong, energetic movement.

Shigeo Kobayashi

While attending Keio University, he studied acting as an apprentice of renowned kabuki actor Yorozuya Kinnosuke.

Sundance Kabuki

Formerly the AMC Kabuki Cinema 8, it was acquired by Robert Redford's Sundance Cinemas chain in 2006 as part of an anti-trust agreement allowing AMC to acquire Loews.

Takizawa Bakin

A wonderful series of ukiyo-e containing 50 pictures depicting characters from Nanso Satomi Hakkenden and featuring leading kabuki actors was created by Utagawa Kunisada II.

The Uptones

With this success, Bill Graham Presents started booking the band as support for major acts such as the Go-Go's and UB40 at the Greek Theater in Berkeley; X, Madness and the English Beat at the Kabuki; Oingo Boingo at the Warfield; General Public at the Henry J. Kaiser Center; and Billy Idol at the Oakland Coliseum.

Thomas Leabhart

Copeau looked to remedy the 'ills of the theater' by turning to the golden ages of Greek theater, Noh, Kabuki, Elizabethan theatre and Commedia dell'arte.

Tōsha

Tōsha Meishō (born 1941), Japanese hayashi musician, providing musical accompaniment in the kabuki theatre


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