Seventh volume of contemporary Japanese plays in English translation, HALF A CENTURY OF JAPANESE THEATER, published
In April of 2005, the seventh volume of HALF A CENTURY OF JAPANESE THEATER was published. This is a series of books of contemporary Japanese plays in English translation that began publication 1991 based on the “Arts Plan 21” of Japan’s Ministry of Culture. The series presents translations of the works of representative Japanese contemporary playwrights and plays that have had an important impact of postwar Japanese theater, with a new volume being published once a year. Accompanying each translated play is a recent photograph of the playwright, stage photos and a profile of the playwright (all specially prepared for this publication). Below is a list of all the plays published in translation in this series so far. You can find synopses of all the plays listed here in the “Japanese Drama Database” page of this Web site (with the exceptions of DUMB TYPE’s S/N and Makoto SATO’s Abe Sada’s Dogs, which are now being prepared).
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Plays of Volume One
Citizens of Seoul by Oriza HIRATA Epitaph for the Whales by Yoji SAKATE Time’s Storeroom by Ai NAGAI Fireflies by Toshiro SUZUE Tokyo Atomic Klub by Nozomi MAKINO Ice Blossoms by Tatsuo KANESHITA
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Plays of Volume Two
The Man Next Door by Ryo IWAMATSU Farewell to Huckleberry by Yutaka NARUI Festival of the Fish by Miri YU Hinii by Akio MIYAZAWA S/N by DUMB TYPE Rhythm Method by Sanae IIJIMA & Yumi SUZUKI Cape Moon by Masataka MATSUDA
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Plays of Volume Three
Kitaro the Ghost-buster by Eriko WATANABE Miss Toyoko’s Departure by Rei ICHIDO Godzilla by Yasuhiko OHASHI The King of La Mancha’s Clothes by Kensuke YOKOUCHI Lullaby: A Hundred Years of Song by Shoji KOKAMI
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Plays of Volume Four
Ode to Joy by So KITAMURA Nippon Wars by Takeshi KAWAMURA A Legend of Mermaids by Chong Wishin Thread Hell by Rio KISHIDA The Red Demon Akaoni by Hideki NODA
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Plays of Volume Five
The Amida Black Chant Murder Mystery by Den FUJITA The Atami Murder Case by Kohei TSUKA Mystery Tour by Mikio KOMATSU The Family Adrift: The Jesus Ark Incident by Tetsu YAMAZAKI Ayako: Mom’s Cherry Blossoms Never Fall by Kodai OKABE Claire de Lune by Juichiro TAKEUCHI
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Plays of Volume Six
La Marie-Vison by Shuji TERAYAMA Yabuhara, the Blind Master Minstrel by Hisashi INOUE Abe Sada’s Dogs by Makoto SATO The Tale of Komachi Told by the Wind by Shogo OTA Sick by Minoru BETSUYAKU A Cry from the City of Virgins by Juro KARA Red Dawn over Manhattan by Ren SAITO
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Plays of Volume Seven
The Meiji Coffin by Ken MIYAMOTO Oppekepe by Yoshiyuki FUKUDA Comedy Duo in Hibernation by Satoshi AKIHAMA Our Lady of the Scabs by Matsuyo AKIMOTO Such a Serious Frivolity by Kunio SHIMIZU At Play with a Lion by Masakazu YAMAZAKI
