Jūrō Kara

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Jūrō Kara ( Japanese 唐 十郎 , Kara Jūrō , real name: Ōtsuru Yoshihide ( 大 靏 義 英 ); born February 11, 1940 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese actor, playwright and writer.

Life

Kara studied acting and theatrical arts at Meiji University and joined the Jōkyō-Gekijō theater group in 1963. With his performances outside the theaters in a red tent ( Red Tent ) he became one of the leading representatives of the underground theater movement ( angura ) in Japan in the 1960s . In 1970 he won the Kishida Kunio Prize with Shōjo . He toured Korea (1972), Bangladesh (1973) and Palestine with his troupe.

In 1985 he dissolved the Jōkyō-Gekijō group and in 1987 founded the group Kara-gumi with young actors . As a professor at Yokohama State University , he founded the Kara-zemi student group in 2000 . For the play Doro ningyō he received the 2003 Kinokuniya Theater Prize , the Tsuruya Namboku Dramatist Prize , the Yomiuri Literature Prize and the Yomiuri Theater Prize . In 2006 he was awarded the Honorary Prize of the Yomiuri Theater Prize and a Special Lifetime Achievement Prize from Meiji University. He also received the Akutagawa Prize in 1989 for the novel Sagawa-kun kara no tegami (based on a real case of cannibalism in Paris) .

Works

  • Shōjo Kamen , 1969
  • Nito Monogatari , 1972
  • Bengaru no Tora , 1973
  • Shitaya Mannen-cho Monogatari , 1981
  • Taki no Shiraito , 1989
  • Binro no Fuin , 1992
  • Gyoshonin Nemo , 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Kara, Jūrō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 唐 十郎 (Japanese); Ōtsuru Yoshihide (real name); 大 靏 義 英 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo