Sep 25 (Kabuki In-Depth) - As a companion to my previous video, I wanted to share these two old productions of the play Kuruwa Bunshō ("Love Letters from the Pleasure Quarter"), the final performances by Kataoka Nizaemon XIII of Fujiya Izaemon, one of his most successful roles.
The first one took place during the December kaomise program of 1980, at the historical Minami-za theatre in Kyoto, and the second in 1986, at the NHK Hall in Tokyo, for a special televised program.
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