Who was born in Nagasaki, Japan and wrote the novel upon which The Remains of the Day, the musical, was based?
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The Remains of the Day (musical) The Remains of the Day is a musical written by Alex Loveless, based on the novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro. The original production, directed by Chris Loveless, premiered at the Union Theatre in London, playing from August 31, 2010 to September 25, 2010.
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Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄 ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980.
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Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum (長崎原爆資料館 , Nagasaki Genbaku Shiryōkan ) is in the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The museum is a remembrance to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the United States of America 9 August 1945 at 11:02:35 am. Next to the museum is the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, built in 2003, which marks the hypocenter of the event. The bombing marked a new era in war, making Nagasaki a symbolic location for a memorial. The counterpart in Hiroshima is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. These locations symbolize the nuclear age, remind visitors of the vast destruction and indiscriminate death caused by nuclear weapons, and signify a commitment to peace.
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Tanaka Chikao Chikao Tanaka (田中 千禾夫 , Tanaka Chikao , 1905-1995) was a Japanese playwright and dramatist whose plays focused on the mental, physical, and religious hardships of post-World War II Japan.
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Genji monogatari (opera) Genji monogatari ("The Tale of Genji") is an opera by the Japanese composer Minoru Miki, with the libretto by Colin Graham, based on the eponymous masterpiece of 11th-century classical Japanese literature by Murasaki Shikibu. The opera was composed in 1999 and premiered in June 2000 at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) in the United States, with Graham directing the production. Cast members from the OTSL production participated in the Japanese premiere of the opera on 20 September 2001.
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Kenji Miyazawa Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治 or 宮澤 賢治 , Miyazawa Kenji , 27 August 1896 – 21 September 1933) was a Japanese poet and author of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social activist.
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Viktor Klyushnikov Viktor Petrovich Klyushnikov (Russian: Виктор Петрович Клюшников , born 22 March 1841, village Leksianovka, Gzhatsk region, Smolensk Governorate, Imperial Russia, - 19 November 1892, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, editor and journalist, whose debut novel, "Marevo" (Марево, Haze, "Russky Vestnik", 1864), was considered by contemporary Russian critics to be one of the four 'great anti-nihilist' novels of the time, alongside "Troubled Seas" by Alexey Pisemsky, "No Way Out" by Nikolai Leskov and "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Both Ivan Turgenev and Alexey K. Tolstoy reacted positively, hailing the arrival of the original, even if erratic literary talent, "who [was playing] with his gift in acrobatic fashion," according to Tolstoy.
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Sayonara (novel) Sayonara (1954), is a novel published by American author James A. Michener. Set during the early 1950s, it tells the story of Major Gruver, a soldier stationed in Japan, who falls in love with Hana-Ogi, a Japanese woman. The novel follows their cross-cultural Japanese romance and illuminates the racism of the post-World War II time period.
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Kan Kikuchi Hiroshi Kikuchi (菊池 寛 , Kikuchi Hiroshi , December 26, 1888 – March 6, 1948) , known by his pen name Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author born in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. He established the publishing company Bungeishunjū, the monthly magazine of the same name, the Japan Writer's Association and both the Akutagawa and Naoki Prize for popular literature. He came to prominence for the plays "Madame Pearl" and "Father Returns", but his ample support for the Imperial Japanese war effort led to his marginalization in the postwar period. He was also the head of Daiei Motion Picture Company (currently Kadokawa Pictures). He is known to have been an avid player of Mahjong.
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Don Juan Triumphant Don Juan Triumphant is the name of a fictional opera written by the title character in the novel "The Phantom of the Opera". In the 1986 musical "The Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the concept is expanded as an opera within a musical and the performance of it plays a major role in the storyline. The fictional piece draws major inspiration from the Mozart's famous work "Don Giovanni" yet the Phantom's opera is depicted as far more bleak and dark.
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Mitsuru Yoshida Mitsuru Yoshida (吉田 満 "Yoshida Mitsuru" January 6, 1923 – September 17, 1979) was a Japanese author and naval officer. He was born in Tokyo. He was a survivor of the battleship "Yamato" when it was sunk on 7 April 1945 during Operation Ten-Go, an attempt to support the defenders of Okinawa.
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Minoru Betsuyaku Minoru Betsuyaku (別役 実 , Betsuyaku Minoru , born 1937) is one of Japan's most prominent postwar playwrights, novelists, and essayists. He won a name for himself as a writer in the "nonsense" genre and has helped lay the foundations of the Japanese "theater of the absurd." His works focused a lot of the aftermath of the war and especially the nuclear holocaust.
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Shine! Shine! is a musical based on characters and situations found in the works of Horatio Alger, particularly "Ragged Dick" and "Silas Snobden's Office Boy", respectively Alger's first best-seller and the one first printed in book form eighty years after it was first serialized in Argosy. Its plot and characters focus on Alger's pervasive theme: that in America one could begin with nothing, and with the right attitude, hard work, application, and a little bit of luck, dream a dream and chart a course on which to achieve it. Richard Seff wrote the book, Lee Goldsmith the lyrics and Roger Anderson the music. Anderson and Goldsmith had previously collaborated on the musical "Chaplin".
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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎 , Tanizaki Jun'ichirō , 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965) was one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki. Some of his works present a shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions. Others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of "the West" and "Japanese tradition" are juxtaposed.
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Einosuke Itō Einosuke Itō (伊藤 永之介 , Itō Einosuke , Akita, November 21, 1903 – July 26, 1959) was a Japanese writer.
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Kaoru Morimoto Kaoru Morimoto (森本 薫 , Morimoto Kaoru , 1912–1946) was a Japanese playwright, director, translator, and actor. He is famous for his critically acclaimed play, "A Woman's Life" ("Onna no isshō"), one of Japan's most frequently staged plays post World War II. Morimoto's work was most popular during the post-war period but his plays are still read and performed today. He was born in Osaka, Japan in 1912 and later moved to Kyoto where he received a degree in English literature from Kyoto University in 1937. Morimoto died in 1946 after a long battle with tuberculosis.
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Fires on the Plain (1959 film) Fires on the Plain (野火 , Nobi ) is a 1959 Japanese war film directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Eiji Funakoshi. The screenplay, written by Natto Wada, is based on the novel "Nobi" (Tokyo 1951) by Shōhei Ōoka, translated as "Fires on the Plain". It initially received mixed reviews from both Japanese and international critics concerning its violence and bleak theme. In following decades, however, it has become highly regarded.
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Hitonari Tsuji Hitonari Tsuji (辻 仁成 , Tsuji Hitonari , born October 4, 1959) is a Tokyo-born Japanese writer, composer, and film director. In his film and singing work he uses the name Jinsei Tsuji, an alternative reading of the Japanese writing of his name. He debuted as a writer in 1989. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as overseas, with his work being translated into 20 languages and selling over ten million copies.
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Junzo Shono Junzō Shōno (庄野 潤三 , Shōno Junzō , 9 February 1921 – 21 September 2009) was a Japanese novelist. A native of Osaka, he began writing novels after World War II. He won the 1954 Akutagawa Prize for his book "Purusaido Shokei" ("Poolside Scene"). Shōno's other award-winning books include "Seibutsu" ("Still Life"), for which he won the Shinchosha literary prize, "Yube no Kumo" ("Evening Clouds"), which was awarded the 1965 Yomiuri Prize, and "Eawase" ("Picture Cards") which took the Noma literary prize.
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Hiroyuki Itsuki Hiroyuki Itsuki (Japanese: 五木 寛之 , born September 30, 1932) is a Japanese novelist, essayist and lyricist, best known in Japan by his novel "The Gate of Youth" and in the English-speaking world by "Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace".
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Shinpei Nakayama Shimpei Nakayama (中山 晋平 , Nakayama Shimpei , March 22, 1887 – December 30, 1952) was a Japanese songwriter, famous for his many children's songs and popular songs ("ryūkōka") that have become deeply embedded in Japanese popular culture.
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The Last Empress (musical) The Last Empress (Hangul: 뮤지컬 명성황후) is a musical about Empress Myeongseong of Korea. It debuted in 1995 as South Korea's first original musical, and was continuing its run in Seoul as of February 2007. It is based on a historical novel written by the well-known South Korean author Yi Mun Yol, composed by Kim Hee Gap, with lyrics by Yang In Ja (translated by Georgina St George), and directed by Yun Ho-Jin. The 2⁄ -hour musical is produced by Seoul-based Arts Communication (A-Com).