Ennosuke III: Kabuki Actor (1984)

This 35minute documentary film is about Ennosuke Ichikawa, aka Ennosuke III, the third in a line of great Kabuki actors in Japan. I m posting this on December 9, 2013, Ennosuke s 74th birthday. We see him in the course of preparing for two major theatrical productions. The first is the 1979 revival of Date no Juyaku, a fivehour play in which Ennosuke plays ten roles, both male and female, and has to switch back and forth, often in the middle of a scene We also see him prepare a rarely performed classic