Outreach
Video Lending Library
Japan
- Program Title: Kabuki
- EASC Code: JK-16
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: Japan
- Language: English
- Subtitles:
- Subject: Arts & Music
- Program Type: Documentary
- Media Type: VHS
- Director:
- Producer: Film for the Humanities and Sciences
- Release Date: 2002
- Running Time: 36 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: This program provides an introduction to the 400-year-old tradition of Kabuki, explaining its orgins and purposes, its literary sources, and the meaning of its symbolism. The program shows the rehearsal, preperation of costume and wigs, and the preformance of the Kabuki play, relates the make-up and music to the overall scheme, and explains the esthetic of Kabuki art.
- Data Entry Date: 8/26/2003
