Hitomiza puppet theatre (Imagine Japan)

Stella Motion Pictures

One of Japan's best-known contemporary puppet theatres, Hitomiza, was founded in 1948. From the start it have been dedicated to a new style of puppet theatre and from 1970, they performed at their own theatre in Tokyo. They also provide training in traditional puppetry including 'otome bunraku', in which each puppet is operated by one puppeteer. They have performed puppet shows for adults, including Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear', silent puppet theatre ifor the deaf and contemporary theatre. [some embedded english subtite] #puppettheatre #Imagine #Japan #Hitomiza

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00:00Next, we'll see the work of Hitomiza, the highly acclaimed Japanese puppet company.

00:05With 80 employees, the company has redefined the notion of ensemble,

00:09with many of its puppeteers living in apartments adjacent to the studios.

00:14Now, that's what I call dedication.

00:30In 1948, I was born in Cama倉, in the city of Cama倉.

00:56At that time, the members of Cama倉 were seven or eight of them,

01:00and they were really a small musical theater in the art school of art school.

01:09Mr. Suda, why did you get interested in puppets?

01:11In Japan, there are a good tradition of the old-fashioned musical musicals.

01:16That's what I wanted to do with my sense of the modern sense of the world.

01:39This is the people who know the world.

01:44This is Alice.

01:49This is also the Riao.

01:56Shakespeare. This is a Japanese statue.

02:04This is a statue of曽崎真珠.

02:08This statue is a statue.

02:13And how many puppets are there here?

02:16There are about 800 to 1000.

02:24And what is the most interesting thing for you working with puppets?

02:29The most interesting thing is to look at the book.

02:40What kind of style do you think?

02:44This statue is the most interesting thing.

03:25Hitomizar puppets only really became popular in the 60s.

03:55When Hiokore Hiotanjima was made for NHK television.

04:00The characters were so popular that they now inhabit a permanent display here at NHK Studio Park.

04:25This is a movie called NINGIU.

04:31This is a movie called NINGIU.

04:33This is a movie called NINGIU.

04:35This is a movie called NINGIU.

04:44Could you tell me why the company chooses to work with deaf people?

04:48NINGIU劇というのは別の言い方をしますと手の芸術なんです。

04:53老者の方の手は手でお話しすることですね。

05:00それから老者の方というのは表情や身体的な表現がとても豊かなんです。

05:10この työには信じら?

05:12人工が関連していたものを作成することができました。

05:15そんなにもセッションダウンになってきたものだなだと感じなって伝達しています。

05:18その子供の中で三つ髪の動画には両方のままあったものだと避難されています。

05:20自分はサード感見やしている。

05:222本の前には映像を見る世界と一番したものだけはあð Schweiz30奈 банしました。

05:25旅の話で、ビニラのきが太もちりません。

05:28I would like to say,

05:36I would like to say,

05:39I would like to say,

05:44I would like to say,

05:48I think that the world is growing.

05:53That's what I think is my character's character.

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