Shakespeare in Japan

Stephen Cremin asianfilmlibrary
Fri Jun 7 19:38:29 EDT 2002


Offhand, I think Kato Tai's 1960 THRONE OF FLAME (Honoo no shiro) 
produced by Toei Kyoto was an adaptation of HAMLET.

Stephen



On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 05:44 PM, Mark Nornes wrote:

> An interesting question from off the list:
>
>
>
> Dear Professor Nornes,
> I?am writing an essay on Shakespeare on film in Asia and I wondered if 
> you know of any Shakespeare related Japanese films other than 
> Kurosawa's? (There's also an animated Ranma 1/2 Romeo and Juliet and Oh 
> My Goddess Midsummer Night's Dream and a Macbeth video game, but that's 
> all I know of).
> Thanks very much.
> Best,
> Richard
> ?
> Professor Richard Burt
> Department of English
> University of Massachusetts
> Amherst, MA 01003
> Phone: (413) 247-9293
> Fax: (413) 545-3880
> http://www.umass.edu/english/eng/facProfiles/Burt.html
> burt at english.umass.edu
> ?
> ?





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