acting styles

[EIJA MARGIT NISKANEN]

Michael, do you know if the realist acting styles came to Japan via USA 
(Strassberg's Method Acting), or directly from Russia (the Stanislavski 
System)? As you might know, these two differ to some degree, with the 
Method putting more weight on the emotional side, for ex. on the use of 
affect memory in the preparation of a role. 
Eija

From: Michael Fitzhenry <michael.fitzhenry at artsit.usyd.edu.au>
>   Hi, while my information is scanty to say the least, there are 
> two 
> books (volume one and two) entitled _Eiga Ai_ that focus on 
> particular 
> (contemporary to the early 1990s) directors (vol 1) and actors 
> (vol 2). 
> I think if you read the "inteviews" you will find a range of 
> pedagogical 
> structures described there, and that includes study of method 
> acting 
> having formed a pedagological basis for some actors. One of the 
> directors in vol.1 for example spoke of his early training as an 
> actor 
> with the Red Tent, and later affiliations with (is it Suzuki's?) 
> Black 
> Tent. Another link perhaps is to look for information about 
> particular 
> actors graduating from Suzuki's _Waseda shogekijo_, known for 
> producing 
> 'realist actors.' Many of the actors associated with the 1970s 
> experimental theatre movement (what David Goodman called the 
> 'post-shingeki movement') also became film actors. Terayama 
> Shuji's band 
> of actor's is an example of 'other acting styles' being employed, 
> Oshima 
> Nagisa used Kara Juro and his troupe in Diary of a Shinjuku Theif, 
> and 
> there are other examples of this sort of thing (not non-
> professional 
> actors , but theatre actors acting in films). Some of these people 
> later 
> became film actors and tv personalities/actors. Can't think of 
> anything 
> else right now. The book on the Art Theatre Guild might also be 
> worth a 
> look, can't remember the title off the top of my head though.
> 
> 

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