Kishida Kunio Drama Award きしだくにおぎきょくしょう
Edition 24 (1980)
Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights
Winners
1 peopleShanghai Bansking is a play by Ren Saito. Set in Shanghai from the early Showa period into wartime, it depicts Japanese jazz musicians drawn to music, youth, love, and freedom while the darker shadows of the age gather around them.
A play about young people living for jazz in Shanghai as the city moves toward war, caught between freedom and ruin.
119 pages
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