symposium
symposium
International symposium "ACTING"
| Date | January 27 - 29, 2012 | ||
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| Venue | Waseda University (Masaru Ibuka Auditorium) | Organizer |
International symposium "New Perspectives on Chinese Film History"
| Date | January 14 2012, 13:00-17:10 | ||
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| Venue | Toyama campus | Organizer | Film reseach course |
International symposium "Problems of theater research from the 16th century until the 18th century"
| Date | November 25 - 27, 2011 | ||
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| Venue | Waseda University (Okuma Auditorium) | Organizer | Japanese theatre reseach course western theatre reseach course |
Revival Screening of Les Misérables, Directed by Henri Fescourt (1925)
| Date | June 16, 2011, 10:00–17:45 | ||
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| Venue | Waseda University (Ono Auditorium) | Organizer | Film Research Course |
Lynn Garafola Lectures
| Date | June 14 - 15, 2011 | ||
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| Venue | Waseda University Campus, Building 26, Lecture Room 302 | Organizer | Dance research course |
Forum “The Great East Japan Earthquake and Art Culture: Eye-Witness Accounts from the Disaster Zone”
| Date | June 14, 2011, 18:00–20:30 | ||
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| Venue | Waseda University (Ono Auditorium) | Organizer | The Culture and Environment of the Arts |
International Conference: “Pourquoi le théâtre - sources et situation actuelle du théâtre”
| Date | February 23 - 25, 2011 | ||
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| Venue | France | Organizer | Japanese theatre research course eastern theatre research course western theatre research course |
“The Development of Dance Studies in the US”
| date | February 15, 2011 |
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| Venue | Waseda University Campus, Building 26, Lecture Room 302 |
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| outline | The Dance Research Course welcomed as lecturer Susan Manning (professor at Northwestern University),
who is known for her work on Mary Wigman, the founder of German expressionist dance, but who in recent
years has been pursuing studies that examine dance history from the political perspectives of gender,
ethnicity and race. She gave two lectures on the present state of dance studies in the US.
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“The Birth of Queer American Dance”
| date | February 14, 2011 |
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| Venue | Waseda University Campus, Building 26, Lecture Room 302 |
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| outline | The Dance Research Course welcomed as lecturer Susan Manning (professor at Northwestern University),
who is known for her work on Mary Wigman, the founder of German expressionist dance, but who in recent
years has been pursuing studies that examine dance history from the political perspectives of gender,
ethnicity and race. She gave two lectures on the present state of dance studies in the US.
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International Symposium: “The Picturesque in Film and Theatre”
| date | January 17 - 19, 2011 |
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| Venue | Waseda University (Ono Auditorium) |
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| outline | An international symposium on “The Picturesque in Film and Theatre,” sponsored by the Waseda
University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum’s Global COE program, the International Institute for
Education and Research in Theatre and Film Arts, was held over three days, on the 17th, 18th and 19th of
January 2011. By approaching film and theatre from the perspective of the picturesque, this symposium
raised new challenges for both film studies and theatre studies. The rich variety of research themes and
high quality of scholarship attracted the attention of researchers from both Japan and abroad, and the
symposium was a great success.
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Lectures by Hanna Scolnicov
| date | September 29, 2010 (Wednesday), 15:00–17:00 October 2, 2010 (Saturday), 15:00–17:00 |
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| Venue | Classroom 321–1, Building 32, Toyama Campus Classroom 302, Building 26, Waseda Campus |
| Organizer | Western Theatre Research Course |
| outline | The Theatre Museum’s Global COE Shakespeare Seminar has hitherto held lectures by renowned Shakespeare
researchers from Japan and abroad with a primary focus on the interrelation between performance, on the
one hand, and text and culture, on the other. Ms. Scolnicov, who was invited to lecture this time, is
highly acclaimed not only for her in-depth studies of Shakespearean texts and culture but also for her
extremely wide-ranging research into Shakespeare and painting as well as the relation between
Shakespeare and modern and contemporary playwrights. She also serves as a member of the International
Shakespeare Association. The present article provides summaries of the two lectures she gave.
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International Symposium: “Who Was KANZE Hisao?”
| date | September 27, 2010 (Monday), 13:30–18:00 |
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| Venue | Ono Memorial Hall |
| Organizer | Japanese Theatre Research Course |
| outline | This year is the 33rd anniversary of the death of KANZE Hisao (1925–1978), the brilliant and
influential Noh actor who died at the young age of 53. To mark that event we invited speakers who for
the most part were colleagues or who had known him at first hand to remember his achievements during a
three-part symposium. Despite the rainy weather the symposium was a great success attracting an audience
of 350 people.
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Lecture Series and Seminar by Professor Pierre Frantz, Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV)
| date | June 28 - July 2, 2010 |
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| Venue | Multipurpose Lecture Room, Basement, Building 26, Waseda Campus Maison Franco-Japonaise (co-sponsored by the Maison Franco-Japonaise) Classroom 302, Building 26, Waseda Campus |
| Organizer | Western Theatre Research Course |
| outline | Eighteenth-century France was known as the age of the Enlightenment. It was also a “century of
theatre” in which a wide variety of spectacles saw the light of day. A theatrical revolution in the
areas of theory and practice was being undertaken, a groping for an ideal form of theatre in every way.
There have been few chances especially in Japan, however, to introduce these realities. This being the
case, the Western Theatre Research Course (the Francophone theater studies project) took the opportunity
to invite Professor Pierre Frantz of Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne to lecture on 18th-century French
theatre. Professor Frantz is the foremost authority in 18th-century French theatre studies, primarily
bourgeois theatre and the theatre of the revolutionary period. Not only has he developed stimulating
arguments from his sweeping view of the field, he is also actively engaged in the dissemination of
knowledge about 18th-century French theatre through, among other things, the recent publication of an
anthology (co-edited by Sophie Marchand).
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Special Lecture by ZHANG Yihe “MEI Lanfang and Others: The Fate of Chinese Traditional Theatre in the Modern World”
| date | May 29, 2010 (Saturday), 15:00–17:30 |
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| Venue | Classroom 102, Building 14, Waseda Campus |
| Organizer | Eastern Theatre Research Course |
| outline | The Theatre Museum Global COE Eastern Theatre Research Course translated and at the end of the 2009
academic year published ZHANG Yihe’s book Ling ren wang shi (Actors' histories) under the title Kyōgeki
haiyū no nijūseiki (Peking Opera actors in the 20th century). The author, ZHANG Yihe, was born in
Chongqing in 1942; after graduating from the Department of Dramatic Literature at the Chinese
Traditional Drama Academy , she served first in the performing arts division of the Sichuan Provincial
Sichuan Opera House , then in the Traditional Drama Research Institute of the Chinese National Academy
of Arts (1979–2002). In addition to her career as a researcher, as the daughter of ZHANG Bojun who was
regarded as China’s number-one rightist during the 1957 anti-rightist campaign, she was sentenced to ten
years in prison for counterrevolutionary crimes during the Cultural Revolution – she was rehabilitated
in 1978 – and led a hard early life.
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"Forum: Thinking about the Future of the Theatrical Arts Environment"
| date | May 7, 2010 (Friday), 18:00–21:00 |
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| Venue | Ono Memorial Hall |
| Organizer | Studies of Cultural Environment for Theatre Course : |
| outline | With the change of government in the autumn of 2009, the enactment of a “Theatres Act” (provisional
title) is being explored; and although all the details of the law have not yet been made clear, it is
certain that the bill has the potential to fundamentally change the environment for the theatrical arts
in Japan. For that reason, the Studies of Cultural Environment for Theater Course held a forum entitled
“Considering the Future of the Theatrical Arts Environment” to which it invited HIRATA Oriza (professor
at Osaka University and Special Advisor to the Cabinet), who has stimulated debate over the Theatres
Act. The forum served as an opportunity to ask him to speak about the new government’s cultural
policies, especially its policy on the theatrical arts, and to discuss them with a wide range of
participants involved in theatre. The fact that the forum attracted an audience that filled Ono Memorial
Hall to capacity may be said to indicate the intense interest in this topic.
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Lecture: “The World of the Czech Avant-garde Theatre as Seen from Its Stage Design”Seminar: “The Prague National Museum and Czech Theatre”
| date | April 23, 2010 (Friday), 16:30–18:00, April 25, 2010 (Sunday), 11:00–12:30 |
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| Venue | Multipurpose Lecture Room, 1st Level Basement, Building 26, Waseda Campus,Conference Room 301, 3rd Floor, Building 26, Waseda Campus |
| Organizer | Japanese Theatre Research Course, sponsor; Czech Centre co-sponsor |
| outline | One of the main research themes of the Japanese Theatre Research Course is a comparative study of
stage construction in Japan, China and Central Europe; from its inception the Course has been doing
research on Europe with a focus on the Czech Republic. Thus far it has sent survey teams there twice,
and in the 2008 academic year it invited Pavel Slavko (director of the the Český Krumlov Castle museum),
who restored the Český Krumlov Castle, and engaged in comparative studies of Japanese and European stage
construction. To promote comparative studies with the Czech Republic, this time it invited Vlasta
Koubska, head of the Prague National Museum’s Theatre Collection, to lecture on the Czech Avant-garde
Theatre from the perspective of its costumes and stage design.
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Research report session: “The Bunraku film ‘Marionnettes japonaises’”
| date | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 13:00 – 16:15 |
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| Venue | Ono auditorium, Waseda University |
| Organizer | Japanese Theatre Studies Course / Film Studies Course |
| outline | Research report session: “The Bunraku film ‘Marionnettes japonaises’”
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Welcoming Alexei Ratmansky, artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet: Special lecture on “The Bright Stream”
| date | On December 2, 2009 |
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| Venue | Waseda University (Okuma Memorial Tower) |
| Organizer | Dance Studies Course |
| outline | Welcoming Alexei Ratmansky, artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet: Special lecture on “The Bright
Stream”
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International Symposium: “Theatre, Dance, and the Arts Scene: Exchanges between Japan and France in the 20th Century”
| date | Wednesday, November 25 – Friday, November 27, 2009 |
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| Venue | Maison des Cultures du Monde (November 25); Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris (November 26); Bibliothèque nationale de France, new building (November 27) |
| Organizer | Organizers: Waseda University Theatre Museum Global COE; Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris; Université Paris 10 (Theatre and film course); Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) |
| outline | The international symposium, “Theatre, Dance, and the Arts Scene: Exchanges between France and Japan
in the 20th Century,” was the first project by the Theatre Museum Global COE program to be organized
abroad. Researchers and artists gathered from Japan and France as well as from all over Europe to make
research presentations and to engage in discussions at this three-day-long symposium, which was held at
three venues in the city of Paris. With two project leaders from the GCOE, one research assistant, two
guest lecturers, three research associates, three researchers presenting papers and two members of the
GCOE office staff providing administrative support, a high-quality, substantive research exchange was
achieved, attended by a total of more than 200 people. |
Professor Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte Lecture Series
| date | Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 16:30–18:30 / Wednesday, September 30, 18:30–20:30 |
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| Venue | Okuma Small Auditorium, Ono Auditorium |
| Organizer | Western Theatre Studies Course |
| outline | The Western Theatre Studies Course this autumn invited Professor Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte of the Free
University of Berlin, a leading researcher on theatre studies in Germany, and held a lecture series on
her full-scale performance theory, which marks a clear break from all previously existing theories of
theatre. The first day’s lecture began with opening remarks by the vice-director of the TSUBOUCHI Memorial Theatre Museum, AKIBA Hirokazu (professor, School of Science and Engineering). In view of the fact that her recent work, Ästhetik des Performativen, was published in Japan this year, Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte gave a lucid summary of its essential elements, illustrated by pertinent visual materials. HIRATA Eiichiro (associate professor, Keio University), one of the book’s translators, served as moderator and interpreter and made the following comments about the background to the book. Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte’s achievements as a theatre researcher extend far beyond the German-speaking world and are well known worldwide. In recent years her Ästhetik des Performativen, published in 2004, has attracted the attention of researchers and was quickly translated into English and published in 2008 under the title The Transformative Power of Performance. A New Aesthetics. In the German-speaking world the theatrical arts have primarily been associated with the poetic tradition, a view that has had widespread support; as a result, performance theory, which developed in the English-speaking world in the 1960s, has been slow to be introduced there even in the area of theatre studies. Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte’s Ästhetik des Performativen regards theatre as an artistic genre that must first and foremost be thought of as performance; she has won praise for assimilating existing performance theories and constructing a basic theory of performance that is both comprehensive and thorough-going. On the second day of the lecture series, entitled “Greek Tragedy: Performances in Germany and Japan – Tradition, Function, Meaning”, Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte discussed Greek tragedies performed in Germany and Japan. Project director MARUMOTO Takashi (professor, Faculty of Law) served as moderator, and HAGIWARA Ken (lecturer, Meiji University), who co-translated Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte’s book with Professor HIRATA, acted as interpreter. Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte noted that in the 1970s the reception of Greek tragedy in the two countries took very interesting forms and made reference to “The Trojan Women” (1974) directed by SUZUKI Tadashi and “King Oedipus” (1976) directed by NINAGAWA Yukio. The lectures on both days were well attended and were followed by lively discussions. |
Symposium: “Thinking about the future of regional theatre”
| date | Saturday, September 27, 2009, 19:30 – 22:00 |
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| Venue | BIRD Theatre, Shikanocho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture |
| Organizer | Artistic and Cultural Environment Studies Course |
| outline | Symposium: “Thinking about the future of regional theatre”
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2009 academic year First Global COE doctoral dissertation report session
| date | Thursday, July 23, 2009, 13:00–17:00 |
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| Venue | Okuma Memorial Tower (Building 26), multi-purpose lecture room |
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| outline | At the first doctoral dissertation report session of the 2009 academic year, three presentations were
made by KIM Moran (GCOE researcher), KANDA Yuko (GCOE research fellow) and WEI Mingjie (GCOE
researcher). The paper given by KANDA was an extremely close analysis of Noh documents from classical
times that broadened out into a lively question and answer period with the audience. The reports of KIM
Moran and WEI Mingjie, on Irish theatre in Korea and on the development of modern Chinese theatre
respectively, took the theatres in their homelands as their subject matter and were extremely impressive
presentations for researchers in different fields due to their profound relation to modern Japanese
theatre. Moderator: NAGASHIMA Yukiko (GCOE research assosiate) 1. 13:00–14:10: KIM Moran (GCOE assosiate fellow, 2008 PhD in Literature from Tsukuba University) “ ‘Our Ireland’ – The Transplanting of Irish Literature in Japan and Colonial Korea.” 2. 14:20–15:30: KANDA Yuko (GCOE assosiate fellow, 2008 PhD in Literature from Waseda University) “On the Classical World of Noh and Its Commentaries.” 3. 15:40–16:50: WEI Mingjie (GCOE assosiate fellow, 2007 PhD in Literature from Kanazawa University) “The Reception of Japanese shingeki Theatre Movements during the Formative Period of Modern Chinese Theatre – with a Focus on the shunryusha/chunliushe (Spring Willow Troupe).” |
International Round Table: “Theatre and Film in the Urban Space of Shanghai”
| date | Saturday, June 6, 2009, 10:00–17:20 |
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| Venue | Waseda Campus Building 26, Room 302 |
| Organizer | Japanese Theatre Studies Course / Eastern Theatre Studies Course |
| outline | Part One: “The 1940s” Presenter: LUO Suwen (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences) Panelists: JIANG Jin (East China Normal University), LIEN Ling-ling (Academica Sinica), SHAO Yingjian (Tokushima University), ZHANG Xinmin (Osaka City University), SHIRAI Keisuke (Bunkyo University), FUJINO Naoko (Kwansei Gakuin University, research fellow), MISU Yusuke (Hiroshima University of Economics, research fellow), TAKAHASHI Shun (Kochi University) Moderator: MORIDAIRA Takafumi (Waseda University, research associate) Part Two: “The 1950s” Presenter: JIANG Jin (East China Normal University) Panelists: LUO Suwen (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences), LIEN Ling-ling (Academica Sinica), SHAO Yingjian (Tokushima University), ZHANG Xinmin (Osaka City University), SAJI Toshihiko (Wako University), MURAI Hiroshi (Kanagawa University), ABE Noriyuki (Doshisha University), MORIDAIRA Takafumi (Waseda University, research assosiate) Moderator: HIRABAYASHI Norikazu (Waseda University, project member) Part Three: “General Discussion” Moderator: OKAZAKI Yumi (Waseda University, project member) |
Theatre Seminar: The Essence of Shanghai Theatre
| date | Monday, June 1, 2009, 14:45–18:00 |
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| Venue | Waseda Campus, Ono Auditorium |
| Organizer | Japanese Theatre Studies Course / Eastern Theatre Studies Course |
| outline | Lecturer: LUO Huaizhen (playwright, Shanghai Center of Creative Arts) “The Hai Pai Spirit in Chinese Theatre: Looking Back on 100 Years of Shanghai Theatre” Lecturer: JIN Jing (Yueju Opera actress, Qi school, Shanghai Jing-an Yueju Opera Troupe) “The Art of the Qi School and the Appeal of Yueju Opera” Lecturer: CHEN Shaoyun (Peking Opera actor, Qi school, Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe) “The Art of the Qi School and the Appeal of Chinese Theatre” |
Seminars on Baroque Theatre Stage Structures
| date | November 25–27, 2008 |
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| Venue | Waseda University (Okuma Memorial Tower) |
| Organizer | Global COE Programme |
| outline | Seminars on Baroque Theatre Stage Structures
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Reconsidering the Underground Theatre of the 1960s: An International Conference
| date | Fri 17th Oct - Sun 19th Oct |
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| Venue | Ono Auditorium(17th Oct), Masaru Ibuka Auditorium(18th Oct), Okuma Auditorium(19th Oct) |
| Organizer | Theare Museum Global COE |
| outline | 17th October "Raising Questions" 14:00-16:15 Research Papers "Film, Theatre, and Dance in the 1960s" You Sato [14:10 - 14:40] Sunao Otsuka [14:50 - 15:20] Naomi Inata [ 15:30 - 16:00] 16:25-17:15 Plenary Lecture 1 "What was the Underground Theatre?" Yoshio Ozasa 17:45-18:45 Plenary Lecture 2 "A Ghost of the Underground Theatre." Ryuko Saeki 19:00-20:15 Panel Session 1 "Theatre in the 1960s from a Present Point of View." Oriza Hirata, Akio Miyazawa, Toshiki Okada Chair : Kentaro Matsui 18th October "Taking of the Movement" 10:00-10:10 Opening Address 10:10-11:00 Plenary Lecture 3 "The History and Influence of Theatre in the 1960s." Akihiko Senda 11:00-11:30 "Truth -telling and Demystification of the Undergroud Theatre." Itsuki Umeyama 13:00-15:00 Symposium "Coffeehouse Chronicles: 47 years of La MaMa E.T.C." Chair: Minako Okamuro Ellen Stewart, Ozzie Rodoriguez, Kaori Fujiyabu (Simulataneous Translation available) 15:30-16:45 Panel Session 2 "The Dawn of Shuji Terayama and his Visual Works." Kyoko Kujo, Sakumi Hagiwara, Kohei Ando 17:00-18:15 Colloquy 1 "Theatre as Movement: Concerning Theatre Center 68/71." Makoto Sato Interviewer: David G. Goodman 19th October "Revealing the Facts" 10:10-11:00 Plenary Lecture 4 "Historical Background and Contemporary Evaluation of Theatre in the 1960s." Takayuki Kan 11:15-12:30 Colloquy 2 "The Function of a Director." Yukio Ninagawa Interviewer: Akihiko Senda 13:30-14:45 Colloquy 3 "The Red tent for Juro Kara" Juro Kara Interviewer: Naoto Horikiri 15:00-16:15 Colloquy 4 "A Strategy for Words." Minoru Betsuyaku Interviewer: Minako Okamuro |
Chikamatsu Project Lovers' Suicides at Imamiya, directed by Masako Yuasa
| date | June 5–6, 2008 |
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| Venue | Waseda University (Ono Memorial Hall) |
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| outline | Chikamatsu Project Lovers' Suicides at Imamiya, directed by Masako Yuasa
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