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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Penniless clerk Chubei embezzles public funds to release his lover, the prostitute Unegawa, from her contract at the teahouse. This is the entire plot of "The Lovers' Exile," by classic Japanese dramatist Monzaemon Chikamatsu (1673-1724), the Shakespeare of Bunraku theatre. Bunraku combines the arts of puppetry, a particularly Japanese form of dramatic recitation called joruri, and musical accompaniment by the shamisen. This performance is by the Bunraku Ensemble of Osaka, which includes a number of players who are Living National Treasures of Japan. "The Lovers' Exile" is the only filmed adaptation of a classic Bunraku performance [at time of filming].
Bunraku Theatre of Japan ; produced and directed by Marty Gross.
Title from resource description page (viewed July 22, 2016).
Puppet handlers : Tamao Yoshida, Minnosuke Yoshida, Kanjuro Kiritake ; joruri reciters : Oritayu Takemoto, Koshijidayu Takemoto, Mojidayu Takemoto ; shamisen players : Enza Tsuruzawa, Seiji Tsuruzawa, Kinshi Nozawa.
Filmed in August 1979, at the Daiei Studios in Kyoto, Japan.