2010 NATIONAL THEATRE
 
March 5 (Fri) - 27 (Sat)  
 
Curtain time:
12:00 noon
12:00 noon and 5:00 PM (6th (Fri), 13th (Fri) and 20th (Fri))
*No performance on 18th (Thur)

KINMON GOSAN NO KIRI yIshikawa Goemonz
Earphone-Guide Commentator: Oshima and Dixon

This play is famous for the twenty-minute scene where the great thief Ishikawa Goemon sits on the second floor of the gate of Nanzenji Temple in Kyoto and admires the view, the realm that he wishes to control. But under the gate is Mashiba Hisayoshi (the kabuki name for Hideyoshi) the ruler of Japan, disguised as a humble Buddhist pilgrim. In that scene, this key confrontation is a crystallization of the stylized beauty of kabuki. But this scene and this confrontation are just one short part of a very long play full of intrigue and spectacle.
Ishikawa Goemon is not just a great thief, he is actually from China and his Chinese father has disguised himself as Japanese and gained a position of great responsibility in the Japanese court. But he is unmasked and his plots revealed and he commits suicide. However, Goemon continues his fatherfs quest to rule Japan.
Starring Nakamura Hashinosuke as Goemon and Nakamura Senjaku as Mashiba Hisayoshi.
 
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