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aimeekittyI'm not allowed to buy myself anything until after Christmas...
but I'm so putting this on my wishlist! Tamasaburo Bando performing Sagi Musume or alturnately: Volume Nine including: FUJI MUSUME: THE WISTERIA MAIDEN featuring ONOE Baiko VII (1987), YASUNA featuring NAKAMURA Shikan VII (2003) , and SAGI MUSUME: THE HERON MAIDEN featuring BANDO Tamasaburo. I'm not sure which would be better. O_O. maybe the second one since it has more than one performance? but I wonder if they cut stuff out... I hope either one would have good english commentary or translation too.
reason for this being that... I just saw that film on Geisha, and apparently a lot of their theatrical stuff is similar in style to Kabuki. So I looked up some Kabuki on Youtube... (click to view), (about 3 min in it gets really cool) and I absolutely adored Tamasaburo Bando's Sagi Musume,... I want to have it on DVD.
I'm almost thinking that some of these (Sagi Musume or one of the others like the Wisteria Maiden) might be really good inspiration for my film. I've been facinated with myths and love stories about dying in the snow, for one. It's a gorgeous visual image for me. Having them on DVD would allow me to study the movements completely too.
Actually.... if anyone has any recommendations for Kabuki I might like, or films that show REAL traditional geisha dances, I'm all ears
Also... I think I might officially make the character in my film a geisha, or make her very based on one anyway. I finally found someone to help me with the missing details I need on costume and lifestyle. (hopefully that will work out). I'm reading lots of books, but finding FULL INFO in English is hit and miss at best. like the color of their shoe straps as Maiko. (Hanao) they change color as they progress as Maiko. None of the books talked about this or said what color goes with which stage. (It's Red, pink then blue btw.)
also, I actually went to the gymn today and started training sessions.
but I'm so putting this on my wishlist! Tamasaburo Bando performing Sagi Musume or alturnately: Volume Nine including: FUJI MUSUME: THE WISTERIA MAIDEN featuring ONOE Baiko VII (1987), YASUNA featuring NAKAMURA Shikan VII (2003) , and SAGI MUSUME: THE HERON MAIDEN featuring BANDO Tamasaburo. I'm not sure which would be better. O_O. maybe the second one since it has more than one performance? but I wonder if they cut stuff out... I hope either one would have good english commentary or translation too.
reason for this being that... I just saw that film on Geisha, and apparently a lot of their theatrical stuff is similar in style to Kabuki. So I looked up some Kabuki on Youtube... (click to view), (about 3 min in it gets really cool) and I absolutely adored Tamasaburo Bando's Sagi Musume,... I want to have it on DVD.
I'm almost thinking that some of these (Sagi Musume or one of the others like the Wisteria Maiden) might be really good inspiration for my film. I've been facinated with myths and love stories about dying in the snow, for one. It's a gorgeous visual image for me. Having them on DVD would allow me to study the movements completely too.
Actually.... if anyone has any recommendations for Kabuki I might like, or films that show REAL traditional geisha dances, I'm all ears
Also... I think I might officially make the character in my film a geisha, or make her very based on one anyway. I finally found someone to help me with the missing details I need on costume and lifestyle. (hopefully that will work out). I'm reading lots of books, but finding FULL INFO in English is hit and miss at best. like the color of their shoe straps as Maiko. (Hanao) they change color as they progress as Maiko. None of the books talked about this or said what color goes with which stage. (It's Red, pink then blue btw.)
also, I actually went to the gymn today and started training sessions.
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Date: 2006-12-01 08:02 pm (UTC)They've got Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura!! AAAACKKKK!!! I looked *EVERYWHERE* for that last time I was in Japan. Asking for it became one of those little phrases in Japanese that you can pull out anytime like "Can I try this on?" or "Do you have a size bigger than Large?"
OMFG, seriously my favorite bestest kabuki of all time.
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Date: 2006-12-01 08:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-01 08:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-01 08:47 pm (UTC)http://www.immortalgeisha.com/
good luck with this!
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Date: 2006-12-01 10:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-02 03:27 am (UTC)what is so great about Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura?
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Date: 2006-12-03 05:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-03 05:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-04 08:55 am (UTC)I picked up a cool book around then--an over-sized (portfolio) paperback called _Kabuki--Eighteen Traditional Dramas_ with lots of production photos of the Grand Kabuki and Danjuri XII and Tomasaburo and other luminaries. Printed in 1985. Unfortunately it's not currently available on Amazon... might be avail. through other used book searches, though...
http://www.amazon.com/KABUKI-EIGHTEEN-TRADITIONAL-author-given/dp/B000I9XQEA/sr=1-1/qid=1165219885/ref=sr_1_1/104-7603309-5115154?ie=UTF8&s=books