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第39回(1995年) award
Oriza Hirata
ひらた オリザ
Hirata Oriza
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
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| International Christian University | College of Liberal Arts, Department of Humanities | Department of Humanities | — | 1982–1986 | Japan |
| Yonsei University (exchange) | — | — | — | 1984 (1 year, exchange) | South Korea |
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Kishida Kunio Drama Award | Tokyo Note | — | Kishida Kunio Drama Award Selection Committee | winner |
| 1998 | Yomiuri Theatre Awards (Outstanding Director Award) | Cape of the Moon | 優秀演出家賞 | Yomiuri Shimbun | winner |
| 2002 | Yomiuri Theatre Awards (Outstanding Production Award) | The Repeated Attacks on Ueno Zoo | 優秀作品賞 | Yomiuri Shimbun | winner |
| 2006 | Montblanc International Culture Prize | — | — | Montblanc International Culture Prize Committee | recipient |
| 2011 | Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier | — | — | French Ministry of Culture | chevalier |
| 2019 | Tsuruya Namboku Drama Award | A History of the Rise and Fall of Japanese Literature | — | Tsuruya Namboku Drama Award Selection Committee | winner |
| 2016 | Mainichi Film Awards (TSUTAYA Film Fan Award, Japanese Film category) | The Curtain Rises (film) | — | Mainichi Shimbun | recipient |
受賞・候補エディション
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第22回(2019年) award
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.
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.
- [film] The Curtain Rises / 本広克行 (2015)
Seoul Citizens (trilogy)
1989年 playA series of plays informed by Hirata's stay in Korea, dealing with Japan–Korea exchange and gaps in language and culture.
A History of the Rise and Fall of Japanese Literature
2019年 playA large-scale play themed around Japanese literature. Winner of the 22nd Tsuruya Namboku Drama Award.
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
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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.