Okada Masaki Monogatari

Update 24 May : have added Simon Godwin's endorsement for Okada Masaki's Hamlet and also a snippet of the Hamlet show in Bunkamura Well, isn't it about time! I missed this announcement today because of work, BUT now that I finally watched the Bunkamura Hamlet 2019  teaser, I have to put it here! It's a short teaser and thus a very short post for now. But I will populate this post with more teasers as we march closer to May. Well, okay, it's still 5 months or so away, but tomorrow is February already, so you know... time flies! Meanwhile, enjoy Okada Masaki as the charming but troublesome Hamlet ! Update 24 May 2019 The following is Simon Godwin's encouraging comment on Okada Masaki's Hamlet: サイモンさんニンゲン御破産観に来てたのね🎶 pic.twitter.com/u5Mwlz7lNQ — さくら (@sakurasakuhime) May 23, 2019 And this is a snippet of the Hamlet show, a promotion for Osaka's show. I wish the announcer didn't talk over Masaki's dialogs, but hey, better than...

The lovely Ningen Gowasan team...  明けましておめでとうございます！これはニンゲン御破算の最初のシーン、灰次と黒太郎の対話です。よろしくお願いします！ Happy New Year! This is the Ningen Gowasan script Chapter 1, the part where Haiji started to appear. I bought the script book when I was watching the show in Osaka in July 2018. Prior to this part, a group of soldiers were harassing some peasants (including old women who stubbornly and verbally fought back). I couldn’t get the nuances of some parts, hence I put the Kanji and kana first here before the English translation.  P 13 官軍１：（遮って）豆の色の情報はいらぬ！新しいゴザも敷くな！ 新しいゴザも敷くな！（婆あたらゴザを回収しはじめるので） ゴザの回収しの音！うるせ！見れ！婆あが弁当食いながら見学してるという、緊張感のない戦争は、戦争としてとう終わってるという話である。 別の侍たらが数人出てくる。汚 い。 (Note: the radical in 汚 is the “three water splashes” on the left hand side. It looks different from what Jisho.org writes because it seems the Japanese uses different font types between writing and typing. I thought I’d leave this note to anyone who’s scratching their heads, trying to find the...