The Japanese are just plain WEIRD! They can never leave others' culture alone, they need to try to copy it. If they saw westerners doing Kabuki they wouldn't be giving it praise, they'd be in hysterics!
@shamalama68 generalizing much? I don't suppose it could possibly be that the Japanese appreciate culture from all over the world, including translating and bringing beautiful, world famous shows to their country so that their people might be able to appreciate it as well. Or do you have the same gripe about all other countries that do the same? Educate yourself before spouting off a lot of ignorant garbage.
@Saitoko7 No, I only have a gripe with the Japanese. Because they have no qualms about copying and imitating everyone else, but as soon as a *white* person attempts to learn their language, they don't like it. They freak out- their attitude is, Japanese language is for Japanese people only, it's ridiculous. If you wear yukata, eat with chopsticks and behave like they do, at first they think it's "cute", and then they start to get annoyed because at heart they are the most racist people on earth.
@shamalama68@shamalama68 Furthermore, this is a people that have "Japanese Only" clubs, bars, and restaurants, and "Japanese Only" baths and onsens… Can you imagine "White Only" or "American Only" business? It's insanity, in the year 2012! And as far as imitating the West, they aren't "appreciating culture from all over the world". They are trying to make it Japanese- that's what they do, they copy and change it to suit themselves… like they do with the English language, they manipulate it.
@shamalama68 I had a Japanese boss once who asked me to correct his (poorly written) English documents. I cleaned them up to sound like "normal" English and he accepted none of the changes- insisted on changing everything back to the incorrect, incomprehensible English crap that he had written. Why? Arrogance. You cannot correct them, ever. Their way is always correct. Very frustrating.
@shamalama68 This Fiddler on the Roof is terrible, because it is STIFF and REGIMENTED and very, very Japanese- not at all the correct spirit of the production, none of the character of Jewish people living in a Shtetl in Europe in 1905. It's like white people from Arkansas trying to perform KABUKI. Ridiculous! STICK TO WHAT YOU KNOW!
@SatchmoSings: It's just as much a testament to the universality of the play as it is to the cultured nature of Japan. This play gets performed all over the world! On the recent DVD of the film, there's a documentary where they talk about that, and how no matter where the play goes, the reaction inevitably goes like this: "How did they manage to create a play that is so Japanese (or African or Brazilian or whatever)??" The issues in it really cross cultural lines all over the world.
@Serai3 :Your point is well taken; this is what happens with anything (Mark Twain or Shakespeare would be other examples) of something that is so terrific in its human appeal that it does ultimately affect and cross over to all cultures.
The Japanese are just plain WEIRD! They can never leave others' culture alone, they need to try to copy it. If they saw westerners doing Kabuki they wouldn't be giving it praise, they'd be in hysterics!
shamalama68 5 days ago
@shamalama68 generalizing much? I don't suppose it could possibly be that the Japanese appreciate culture from all over the world, including translating and bringing beautiful, world famous shows to their country so that their people might be able to appreciate it as well. Or do you have the same gripe about all other countries that do the same? Educate yourself before spouting off a lot of ignorant garbage.
Saitoko7 1 day ago
@Saitoko7 No, I only have a gripe with the Japanese. Because they have no qualms about copying and imitating everyone else, but as soon as a *white* person attempts to learn their language, they don't like it. They freak out- their attitude is, Japanese language is for Japanese people only, it's ridiculous. If you wear yukata, eat with chopsticks and behave like they do, at first they think it's "cute", and then they start to get annoyed because at heart they are the most racist people on earth.
shamalama68 1 day ago
@shamalama68 @shamalama68 Furthermore, this is a people that have "Japanese Only" clubs, bars, and restaurants, and "Japanese Only" baths and onsens… Can you imagine "White Only" or "American Only" business? It's insanity, in the year 2012! And as far as imitating the West, they aren't "appreciating culture from all over the world". They are trying to make it Japanese- that's what they do, they copy and change it to suit themselves… like they do with the English language, they manipulate it.
shamalama68 1 day ago
@shamalama68 I had a Japanese boss once who asked me to correct his (poorly written) English documents. I cleaned them up to sound like "normal" English and he accepted none of the changes- insisted on changing everything back to the incorrect, incomprehensible English crap that he had written. Why? Arrogance. You cannot correct them, ever. Their way is always correct. Very frustrating.
shamalama68 1 day ago
@shamalama68 This Fiddler on the Roof is terrible, because it is STIFF and REGIMENTED and very, very Japanese- not at all the correct spirit of the production, none of the character of Jewish people living in a Shtetl in Europe in 1905. It's like white people from Arkansas trying to perform KABUKI. Ridiculous! STICK TO WHAT YOU KNOW!
shamalama68 1 day ago
Nice choreography
v1de0gamr 1 week ago
OH! Hisaya Morisige! Kiitonn Masuda! Was it wonderful ensemble?
mgmfjt 1 month ago
i wish my production of fiddler could have been as well constructed as this
mallen92506 11 months ago
Anyone have any videos of the version with Masachika Ichimura as Tevye?
EuphrasieF 1 year ago
Beautiful!
watcher9828 1 year ago
In this way, the Japanese could probably relate to the Jews of Anatevka, in their shared distrust of the Russians.
dsperlin 1 year ago
Omg Fiddler on the roof in Japanese that is so cool and I wonder if there's a CD of it or where can I find Japanese lyrics of the songs?
emmasmith173 1 year ago 4
That the Japanese would mount such a wonderful production and that it would be commercially successful brings me tears of joy.
The Japanese are truly "Citizens Of The World!!"
SatchmoSings 2 years ago 15
@SatchmoSings: It's just as much a testament to the universality of the play as it is to the cultured nature of Japan. This play gets performed all over the world! On the recent DVD of the film, there's a documentary where they talk about that, and how no matter where the play goes, the reaction inevitably goes like this: "How did they manage to create a play that is so Japanese (or African or Brazilian or whatever)??" The issues in it really cross cultural lines all over the world.
Serai3 1 year ago
@Serai3 :Your point is well taken; this is what happens with anything (Mark Twain or Shakespeare would be other examples) of something that is so terrific in its human appeal that it does ultimately affect and cross over to all cultures.
SatchmoSings 1 year ago
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emmasmith173 2 years ago