The Hall of the Crying Deer (1986)
September 20, 1986Release Date
The Hall of the Crying Deer (1986)
September 20, 1986Release Date

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Ruriko Asaoka
Countess Asako

Koji Ishizaka
Einosuke Shimizu

Bunta Sugawara
Count Kageyama

Kiichi Nakai
Hisao, Einosuke's son

Kon Ichikawa
Director

Shinya Hidaka
Writer

Yukio Mishima
Writer

Kazuo Baba
Producer

Hiroaki Fujii
Producer

Kensaku Tanikawa
Composer

Emi Wada
Costume Design

Chizuko Osada
Editor

Setsuo Kobayashi
Director of Photography

Tetsuya Ohashi
Sound

Shinobu Muraki
Art Direction

Kazuo Shimomura
Gaffer

Kazuo Yoshida
Assistant Director

Genshiro Kawamoto
Producer

Junnosuke Yamamoto
Music

Ikuko Saito
Costumer

Kyōko Kishida

Jun Hamamura

Tatsuya Mihashi

Hirokazu Inoue
Details.
Release DateSeptember 20, 1986
Original Name鹿鳴館
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 5m
Genres
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Wiki.
Rokumeikan is a four-act costume drama by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. It was commissioned by the Bungakuza group for its 20th anniversary, and its first run was from 27 November to 9 December 1956 at the Daiichi Seimei Hall, with Haruko Sugimura playing Asako and Nobuo Nakamura playing Kageyama. The text was published in the December 1956 issue of Bungakukai.
The play was enormously successful, and toured the country. By many accounts, it was the most successful play by Mishima and has been revived on several occasions. An English translation by Hiroaki Sato was published in 2002.
The play was adapted into different media. A film version, directed by Kon Ichikawa, appeared in 1986, and a TV version in 2008. An opera based on the play by Shin’ichirō Ikebe was premiered by the New National Theatre Tokyo in 2010.