Onoe Baiko the Seventh as The salt-gatherer
WCBS-TV; film courtesy of Shōchiku Producing Company, Tokyo; produced and directed by Merrill Brockway
- Resource Type:
- VHS Video
- Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : WCBS-TV, 1972
Kent, Conn. : Creative Arts Television Archive, [1997], ©1997 - Related Series:
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- Summary:
- Tribute to the Kabuki actor Onoe Baikō VII upon his being named one of Japan's Living National Treasures. Baikō, a noted onnagata (female impersonator) is seen in footage filmed in 1969 during the Grand Kabuki's U.S. tour, playing the role of the courtesan Agemaki in the play Sukeroku, first in costume onstage, then in street clothes in the television studio. In a series of still photographs, he is seen coaching his eldest son Kikunosuke in the role of Sagami, General Kumagai's wife. The final segment of the program shows Baikō in the role of a woman abandoned by her lover, filmed onstage in the 1960s in an extended excerpt from The salt gatherer, an 18th-century Kabuki play based on a 14th-century Nō drama.
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- Language Notes:
- Some parts in Japanese with English translation.
- Related Series:
- Alternate Titles:
- Former Dance Collection title: Japan: old and new > Part I, Kabuki
Title on end credits: Kabuki > Onoe Baiko the Seventh as The salt-gatherer
Title on wrapper: Kabuki classics > Onoe Baiko VII in The salt-gatherer - Subjects:
- System Details:
- VHS.
- Performers:
- Commentary by Faubion Bowers.
- General Notes:
- Telecast by WCBS-TV, New York, N.Y., on Camera three, April 30, 1972.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (29 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- Physical Characteristics:
- polyester; 1/2 in.; polychrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- analog; magnetic; mono
- Video Characteristics:
- VHS; NTSC
- Call Numbers:
- MV 9090
- OCLC Numbers:
- 74406997
45691920 [Invalid]
