Eriko Watanabe

Eriko Watanabe ( Japanese 渡 辺 え り 子 , Watanabe Eriko ; 渡 辺 え り , Watanabe Eri ; aka: 土屋 え り 子 , Tsuchiya Eriko ; born January 5, 1955 in Yamagata ) is a Japanese actress, theater director and playwright.

Watanabe graduated from the Butai Geijutsu Gakuin (“Institute for Theater Arts”) and from 1978 headed the theater group Nijū-maru (“two hundred” or “twenty circles”), which she held in 1980 in Sanjū-maru (“three hundred” or “thirty circles “) Renamed. In 1983 she received the Kishida Kunio Prize for the play Gegege no ge . In 1987 she was awarded the Kinokuniya Theater Prize for Mabuta no haha . In 1996 she received the Japanese Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her appearance in the film Shall we dance? .

In 2001 she founded the theater group Uchudo , which has been called Office 300 since 2006 and with which she has been producing stage productions since 2003. Her work for the Kabuki actor Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII also became known. like the dance drama Ima wa mukashi Momotaro and the play Shitakiri suzume (2007). Since 2006 she has been teaching as a visiting professor at Kantō Gakuin University .

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• Martin Banham: "The Cambridge Guide to Theater" , revised new edition Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 9780521434379 , pp. 569-70.
• Katherine Brisbane, Ravi Chaturvedi, Ramendu Majumdar, Chua Soo Pong, Minoru Tanokura: "The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theater: Volume 5: Asia / Pacific" , Routledge, 2005, ISBN 9781134929788 , p. 300
• Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn: "The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Volume 2," Columbia University Press 2007, ISBN 9780231144247 , pp. 1443-44
• The Japan Foundation - Performing Arts Network Japan - Artist Database - Watanabe Eri
• Eriko Watanabe in the Internet Movie Database (English)