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Oriza Hirata

ひらた オリザ

Hirata Oriza

ペンネーム: Oriza HirataUsed as legal name and professional name

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1962-11-08 (Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan)
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan → Seoul, South Korea (exchange at Yonsei University)

経歴

職業
playwright, theatre director, novelist, theatre company artistic director, academic, screenwriter
活動期間
1981年〜
所属
Seinendan (Youth Theatre Company), Komaba Agora Theatre, Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Innovation Center (Specially Appointed Professor), Japan Playwrights Association (Director)
所属団体
Japan Playwrights Association, Science Council of Japan (member)
影響を受けた人物
Yasujiro Ozu
影響を与えた人物
Hidetomo Iwai, Riki Okada, Shiro Maeda, Shu Matsui, Katsuyuki Motohiro

学歴

International Christian University
College of Liberal Arts, Department of Humanities / Department of Humanities
期間: 1982–1986
卒業年: 1986
国: Japan
Yonsei University (exchange)
期間: 1984 (1 year, exchange)
国: South Korea
Publicly funded exchange scholarship from International Education Foundation

受賞歴

Kishida Kunio Drama Award
1995
対象作品: Tokyo Note
主催: Kishida Kunio Drama Award Selection Committee
結果: winner
Yomiuri Theatre Awards (Outstanding Director Award)
1998
対象作品: Cape of the Moon
部門: 優秀演出家賞
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: winner
Yomiuri Theatre Awards (Outstanding Production Award)
2002
対象作品: The Repeated Attacks on Ueno Zoo
部門: 優秀作品賞
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: winner
Montblanc International Culture Prize
2006
主催: Montblanc International Culture Prize Committee
結果: recipient
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier
2011
主催: French Ministry of Culture
結果: chevalier
Tsuruya Namboku Drama Award
2019
対象作品: A History of the Rise and Fall of Japanese Literature
主催: Tsuruya Namboku Drama Award Selection Committee
結果: winner
Mainichi Film Awards (TSUTAYA Film Fan Award, Japanese Film category)
2016
対象作品: The Curtain Rises (film)
主催: Mainichi Shimbun
結果: recipient

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Tokyo Note

1995年 play 207ページ

A representative play exemplifying Hirata's 'quiet theatre' using everyday speech. Multiple characters engage in calmly unfolding conversations that reveal the dramatic quality of ordinary existence.

everyday lifecommunicationdialogue

The Curtain Rises

2012年 novel (adapted to film)

A youth story about a high school drama club. The novel was adapted into a film in 2015 and brought wider public attention to Hirata's literary work.

youththeatrecoming of age
映像化・舞台化
  • [film] The Curtain Rises / 本広克行 (2015)

Seoul Citizens (trilogy)

1989年 play

A series of plays informed by Hirata's stay in Korea, dealing with Japan–Korea exchange and gaps in language and culture.

international exchangecultural differenceslanguage

A History of the Rise and Fall of Japanese Literature

2019年 play

A large-scale play themed around Japanese literature. Winner of the 22nd Tsuruya Namboku Drama Award.

literary historyculturecritique

全著作

  • A Book Recording the Adventures of a Sixteen-Year-Old Oriza (originally with a very long title)
  • Tokyo Note (1995)
  • Transfer Student (1995)
  • The Curtain Rises (2012)
  • An Introduction to Theatre (1998)

翻案

  • The Curtain Rises — film adaptation (2015, dir. Katsuyuki Motohiro)
  • Documentaries 'Engeki 1' and 'Engeki 2' by Kazuhiro Soda (2012)

作風・主題

文体
quiet theatre based on modern colloquial theatre theorynaturalistic dialogue using everyday speechmeticulously timed movement emphasizing stillness
頻出モチーフ
everyday conversationsimultaneous overlapping dialoguesstillness and the passage of uneventful time

評価・遺産

A key theorist and practitioner in contemporary Japanese theatre. Proponent of modern colloquial theatre theory, he significantly influenced small-scale theatre since the 1990s and is active as an educator and cultural policy actor.

記念館・博物館

  • Aomori Museum of Art (Director) Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan

関連学会

  • Japan Playwrights Association
  • Science Council of Japan (member / participation)

大衆文化への影響

  • Broader public recognition after the film adaptation of the novel 'The Curtain Rises'

引用

  • Human everyday life is not a continuous series of dramatic events but is largely occupied by quiet, uneventful time; yet the very existence of people is sufficiently dramatic.
    出典: Various writings on modern colloquial theatre (summary) (1998年)

豆知識

  • At age 16 he undertook a round-the-world bicycle trip and published a travelogue about it.
  • The 2015 film adaptation of 'The Curtain Rises' increased his notoriety as a novelist.
  • He announced the birth of his first child at the age of 55.