Summary
In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in the West, but tries to capture her significance.
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Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 74GoodWatch 76
IMDb7.6
Letterboxd · 207 ratings3.6/5
Running time
1 h 29 min
A typical length for documentaries, −7 min on the typical 96
typical 9689Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 4 countries
Released
1995
September 1, 1995
31 years ago
Genres
DocumentaryTV MovieFantasyLanguage
German
Original language
Also spoken
JapaneseMade in
- Japan
- Switzerland
Directing · 2
- Daniel Schmid Director, Writer
- Shinji Aoyama Assistant Director
Production · 2
- Marcel Hoehn Producer
- Kenzo Horikoshi Producer
Camera · 1
- Renato Berta Director of Photography
Sound · 3
- Franz Liszt Music
- Giacomo Puccini Music
- Dieter Meyer Sound
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