I Hope'ya See a Roppa

[Aaron Gerow]

To add to the list of summer events that I and others have sent, let me 
note that the Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum at Waseda University is 
currently holding an exhibit on Furukawa Roppa and his involvement in 
musical revues. Roppa was one of Japan's great comedians who appeared 
in many many films in addition to being central in stage comedy and 
musical revues. The son of an aristocrat, he actually started out as a 
film reporter and magazine editor and is also famous as a diarist. The 
exhibit includes a lot about Roppa, including his relation to film, as 
well as related phenomena such as Asakusa Opera and postwar strip shows.

The exhibition will run until July 31, but one of the jewels of the 
event is the rare screening of a Roppa musical comedy entitled Harakiri 
Boy (PCL, 1937) on June 28.

http://www.waseda.jp/enpaku/special/2007roppa.html

Aaron Gerow
KineJapan owner

Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University

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