Kabuki classics : Onoe Baiko VII as "the salt gatherer" / directed by Merrill Brockway ; produced by Merrill Brockway, Camera Three, New York, NY ; interview by Faubion Bowers ; performed by Onoe Baiko, VII.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Onoe, Baikō, 1915-1995., Performer.

Bowers, Faubion, 1917-1999., Interviewer.

Brockway, Merrill., Director, Producer.

Camera Three Productions., Producer.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kabuki--18th century.

Kabuki.

Kabuki plays.

Theater--Japan.

Theater.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (29 min.).

Place of Publication:

Kent, CT : Creative Arts Television, 1972.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Tribute to the Kabuki actor Onoe Baikō VII upon his being named one of Japan's Living National Treasures. Baikō, a noted onnagata (female impersonator) is seen in footage filmed in 1969 during the Grand Kabuki's U.S. tour, playing the role of the courtesan Agemaki in the play Sukeroku, first in costume onstage, then in street clothes in the television studio. In a series of still photographs, he is seen coaching his eldest son Kikunosuke in the role of Sagami, General Kumagai's wife. The final segment of the program shows Baikō in the role of a woman abandoned by her lover, filmed onstage in the 1960s in an extended excerpt from The salt gatherer, an 18th-century Kabuki play based on a 14th-century Nō drama.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 18, 2014).

OCLC:

877951979