i am looking for asian films based on shakespeares plays, if you know of any good ones or where i may buy/rent them please let me know
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Re: asian cinema and shakespeare
Tue, October 17, 2006 - 10:39 PMWell-known adaptations were Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" ("Macbeth") and "Ran" ("King Lear"), which is also one of my favorite films.
You can rent them anywhere.
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Re: asian cinema and shakespeare
Wed, October 18, 2006 - 8:57 AMkurosawa's the bad sleep well(1963) is an update of shakespeare's hamlet set in modern day corporate life in japan.
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Re: asian cinema and shakespeare
Wed, October 18, 2006 - 1:46 PMI can't think offhand of any Asian directors who have done adaptations other than Kurosawa. Though I would be more surprised if there weren't others out there.
An IMDB search of plot summaries on "Shakespeare" and various Asian countries only produced one that sounded like a contender:
Qing ren jie (2005)
us.imdb.com/title/tt0450099/
Here's the very badly-written IMDB plot summary:
"A love story that should not have happened. But the Great Cultural Revolution fathered it. As memorable as Romeo and Juliet, their love tied with the same intrusion from their families ¨C the hatred. Until one day, they watched Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It inspires them. It gives their juiceless love story the hope for fruit. It brings them the determination to bridge through time setting aside the hatred. The same gives them a wait of 12 years. 12 years of changing time, changing era. Friends come and go. Songs sang become old. How much longer for their love can they hold? How much longer for their love with beautiful memory and unforgettable days can they hold?"
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Wed, October 18, 2006 - 11:00 PMi've seen the kurosawas if you come up with any others please let me know thank you so much -
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Thu, October 19, 2006 - 3:09 AMOldboy = Oedipus Rex? Ah, but that's not Shakespeare. -
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Thu, October 19, 2006 - 3:41 AMI feel that "Gozu" is "Orpheus and Eurydice." -
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Thu, October 19, 2006 - 12:59 PMTale of Twin Sisters = Hanzel and Gretel? -
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Re: asian cinema and shakespeare
Thu, October 19, 2006 - 1:18 PMI don't know about "Tale of Two Sisters" being "Hansel and Gretel." That fairy tale is about parental abandonment. "Sisters" is about guilt and loss, though there is a "new parent" element. The Mom in the film has more of a "wicked stepmother" thing going on (even though she's really not), which gives it an element in common with many fairy tales. -
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Thu, October 19, 2006 - 3:05 PMYou're taking me too seriously for one. And two, it is based on an actual Korean folktale, which does have an evil stepmother, and also is not quite about parental abandonment. It is about being wrongfully accused and seeking justice after death. If you'd like, I could pm you the whole story. :D -
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Re: asian cinema and shakespeare
Thu, October 19, 2006 - 8:22 PM"Too seriously"? I gave your posting the same respectful consideration I give most people's.
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Re: asian cinema and shakespeare
Thu, October 19, 2006 - 11:52 PMYou better not! And let that be a warning to you!
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Re: asian cinema and shakespeare
Thu, October 19, 2006 - 1:32 PMThis is sort of off topic to your search, but I came across the name Monzaemon Chikamatsu being refered to as 'Japanese Shakesphere' when I was looking up the '69 film Double Suicide, which is excellent by way. IMDB aids with the hunt as usual. -
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Thu, October 19, 2006 - 2:27 PManyone seen the Feng Xiaogang movie the banquet? its suposed to be hamlet -
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Re: asian cinema and shakespeare
Wed, November 15, 2006 - 7:09 AMKurosawa, I feel, does a very good job adapting shakespeare. Even though he took already existing material had gave his own take on it and made it his own. My only problem is that he never did a version of Romeo & Juliet. I think that it would have made an interesting movie.
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