Yukinojo Henge - Kabuki (大川橋蔵)

Kabuki onnagtata performance by 大川橋蔵(okawa hashizo) ... oiran from Miyajima no Danmari (宮島のだんまり). Hashizo portrays the courtesan Ukifune.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Hashizo
• kabuki
• Okawa
• onnagata
• yukinojo
• ukifune

[kabukiguy]

Ogawa (not Okawa, according to most sources) was originally a kabuki actor of whom much was hoped, but he abandoned kabuki to become a movie actor in the early 1950s. Some such actors returned to kabuki, but Ogawa, except on rare occasions, did not.

[HashizoTV]

@kabukiguy

The kanji (大川) can be interpreted both as Okawa and Ogawa. My sources are fans who actually met him during the 60s and he was introduced as Okawa. I also have Japanese magazines from the 60s w/captions under the kanji showing Okawa. I also have kabuki books authored by non-Japanese who translated his name as Ogawa.

[HashizoTV]

@kabukiguy

He rarely did appear with the Kikugoro Kabuki group after he left for movies. His popularity did allow him to produce kabuki theater under his own name, inviting other actors who got their start in Kabuki. He appeared at the Meiji-za every May from 1971 - 1983 and at the Kabuki-za every December from 1967 - 1982. He performed traditional pieces like: Fuji Musume, Sagi Musume, Benten Kozo as well as adaptations of some of his movies.

[Cleopatraofelko]

I would very much like to see a kabuki. Reading about one in ''The host in the Tokaido inn'' And ''The demon in the tea house'' They sounded fantastic.

[HashizoTV]

I just got back from Japan and went to the Kabuki-za. It was fabulous.

[beastandbeast]

here thx to scrubs ahaha

[katieperez777]

@Cleopatraofelko omg you mean ghost from the tokkaido inn? omg i read those in elementary school!

[bottomOFair]

@HeSapawin yukinojo henge(1959). there are 6 movies have the same title. i had found the dvd "yukinojo henge/Revenge of a Kabuki Actor(1963)" in the us. its directed by my fav director kon ichikawa.

[HeSapawin]

Sorry, I'm still not sure what the name of the movie is. Would you let me know. Thank you.

[picklywaffles]

Haha! I luv comedy! What did she say?

[maxtull21]

Too bad they had to tear it down last year.

[SuperMonAmur]

what's the name of the movie?????

[ruzickaw]

horrible

[DrMarmaladeWhoFace]

I saw the movie ..........Awesumo!

[Etimos]

I LOVE the way they talk in kabuki, the way everything is exaggerated, all the movements, all the voices, everything is just stretched out and made outlandish, and yet somehow still very dignified and artistic. By all rights, it should be HORRIBLE, at least by western standards, but it's not, it's got such a strange quality to it that it just becomes awesome.