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Yoji Sakate

さかて ようじ

Sakate Yōji

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1962-03-11 （Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan）
Died
]) 0 ? null
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
playwright, theatre director, theatre company artistic director
Active Years
1983-
Affiliations
Rinkogun (artistic director), Japan Playwrights Association (former president), Japan Directors Association (board member)
Memberships
Japan Playwrights Association, Japan Directors Association
Influenced By
Tetsu Yamazaki

Education

Okayama Hosen High School
Country: Japan
Keio University
Faculty of Letters
Country: Japan
Reported graduate of the Faculty of Letters (citation needed)

Awards

Kishida Kunio Drama Award
1991
Work: Breathless: A Night Breathing Plastic Bags
Organization: Kishida Kunio Drama Award Committee
Result: 受賞
Yomiuri Theatre Awards (Best Director)
1999
Work: The Emperor and the Kiss
Category: 最優秀演出家賞
Organization: Yomiuri Theatre Awards Committee
Result: 受賞
Kinokuniya Theatre Award (Individual Prize)
2002
Category: 個人賞
Organization: Kinokuniya Theatre Award Committee
Result: 受賞
Yomiuri Literature Prize (Drama/Scenario)
2002
Work: The Attic
Category: 戯曲・シナリオ賞
Organization: Yomiuri Shimbun
Result: 受賞
Yomiuri Theatre Awards (Best Director)
2002
Work: CVR Charlie Victor Romeo / The Attic / The Whole Until the Last Person / Abe Sada and Mutsuo
Category: 最優秀演出家賞
Organization: Yomiuri Theatre Awards Committee
Result: 受賞
Asahi Performing Arts Award
2004
Work: Daruma-san ga Koronda
Organization: Asahi Shimbun
Result: 受賞
Tsurugaoka Namboku Playwright Prize
2005
Work: Daruma-san ga Koronda
Organization: Tsuruyā Namboku Playwright Prize Committee
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Tokyo Trial / Dangerous Story offside

1991 play/drama
war responsibilitysocial issues

Breathless / Come Out

1991 play/drama
avant-garde theatresocial critique

The Origin of Fire

1994 play/drama
historysociety

The Attic

2002 play/drama
familymemory

Daruma-san ga Koronda

2005 play/drama
social theatrephysical expression

Bibliography

  • Tokyo Trial / Dangerous Story offside (Eridate Shobo, 1991)
  • Breathless / Come Out (Eridate Shobo, 1991)
  • The Origin of Fire (Eridate Shobo, 1994)
  • As Long As There Is Blue Sky (Eridate Shobo, 1996)
  • Whale's Tombstone (Eridate Shobo, 1998)
  • The Emperor and the Kiss (Camomile, 2001)
  • The Whole Until the Last Person (Renga Shobo, 2003)
  • Thus We Passed Through the Twentieth Century (Shinjuku Shobo, 2003)
  • Daruma-san ga Koronda (Camomile, 2005)
  • Yoji Sakate 1: The Attic / Mimizu (Hayakawa Publishing, 2007)
  • Yoji Sakate 2: Boiling Point of the Sea / The Last of Okinawa Milk Plant / Pikadon Kijimuna (Hayakawa Publishing, 2008)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
socially engaged avant-garde theatreplays with documentary elements
Recurring Motifs
war responsibilitysocial issueshistory and the individual

Legacy

A playwright and director who, as the leader of Rinkogun, has had a significant impact on contemporary Japanese theatre. Known for works addressing social issues and experimental stagecraft, he has received multiple major theatre awards.

Academic Societies

  • Japan Playwrights Association
  • Japan Directors Association

Trivia

  • Artistic director of the theatre company Rinkogun.
  • Served as president of the Japan Playwrights Association from 2006 to 2016.