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21 Facts About Kunio Shimizu

1.

At Tama University of Fine Arts Shimizu was a professor working in the Moving Images and Performing Arts Department.

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Somewhere around 1968 Yukio Ninagawa asked Kunio Shimizu to write a play for him to direct.

3.

Kunio Shimizu wrote Such a Serious Frivolity for Ninagawa to produce even though Ninagawa wanted to produce the play the script got rejected.

4.

Therefore, Kunio Shimizu wrote some plays in order to bring up a sense of the view of the people whose political reform demands were not being met.

5.

Kunio Shimizu set up the Modern Man's Theater along with Ninagawa.

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Shimizu Kunio went to Waseda University and started writing plays to be performed in the 1960s.

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Some topics Kunio Shimizu's plays deal with include reality and illusion, the present and the past, and memories of the past.

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8.

Kunio Shimizu's plays incorporate the past as well as the present.

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In many of Kunio Shimizu's plays the dramatic tension centers between siblings and their parents.

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Kunio Shimizu seems to use the relationships among family members as an important point in his plays.

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Shimizu Kunio wrote in the time period of the 1960s.

12.

Kunio Shimizu wrote that Kobo Abe influenced him as well as being an example to him.

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Kunio Shimizu has recurring themes in his plays such as a frustrated search for a personal identity and madness.

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Furthermore, another common component of Kunio Shimizu's plays are having the central drama come from siblings and their parents.

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Kunio Shimizu makes use of other literature, which usually comes from drama as well as poetry in the West.

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Kunio Shimizu uses these works in order to make his scenes more powerful.

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Kunio Shimizu appears to have a similar style as Anton Chekhov, a Russian playwright, in terms of how Chekhov uses a mixture of light humor as well as an intense feeling of wanting something.

18.

The characters of Kunio Shimizu express a lot of energy.

19.

Kunio Shimizu wrote many plays as the collection of his plays add up to forty-three.

20.

Kunio Shimizu uses a collage in order to indirectly convey his thoughts.

21.

Kunio Shimizu's hometown in the country was an influence on his hometown memories and gave him inspiration in his writing.