The Story of the Late Chrysanthemum
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemum ★★★ ½ 1939
Classic drama about the son of a Kabuki actor who falls in love with a servant girl against his father's wishes. Their doomed affair is the center of the plot. Acclaimed and sensitive drama, in Japanese with English subtitles. 115m/B VHS . JP Shotaro Hanayagi, Kakuo Mori, Kokichi Takada, Gonjuro Kawarazaki, Yoko Umemura; D: Kenji Mizoguchi.
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Zeami Motokiyo , Zeami Motokiyo (zā´ä´mē mō´tō´kē´yō) or Kanze Motokiyo, c.1363–c.1443, Japanese actor, playwright, and drama theorist. Son of the itinerant actor Kan… Noh drama , Nō drama (Jap., nōgaku, nohgaku; ‘skill music’ or ‘skill entertainment’). A highly sophisticated dance, music, dramatic form with important religious… Samar , Samar •Alabama, clamour (US clamor), crammer, gamma, glamour (US glamor), gnamma, grammar, hammer, jammer, lamber, mamma, rammer, shammer, slammer, s… George Farquhar , Farquhar, George
BORN: 1677, Londonderry, Ireland
DIED: 1707, London
NATIONALITY: British
GENRE: Poetry, drama
MAJOR WORKS:
Love and a Bottle (1698)… Japanese giant salamander , Andrias japonicus (Japanese giant salamander) See CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE.
Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) See CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE. Japanese Literature , Japanese literature, literary works produced in the language of the islands of Japan.
See also Asian drama.
Earliest Writings
Although Japanese and C…
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