Utaemon VI: 1951 Name-Taking Ceremony and the Narikomaya Art

[@dalesnow1707]

moe of this please! what an amazing video! thanks!

[@chwhite6886]

Truly wonderful-thank you so much!

[@shirokumakogyo]

The amount of research and knowledge that goes into your videos is truly astounding. I spent two years in Kyoto as a college student studying kabuki and other traditional performing arts, and I now realize that in that time, I just barely scratched the surface...

[@agrebennikov]

I had the privilege and happiness to see him on stage during the tour in Russia. Since then I have seen nearly all Kabuki stars of the next generations. But no one, even the truly amazing ones like Tojuro or Nizaemon, can be compared to him for me.

[@KabukiInDepth]

That must have been a transformative experience! I think everyone that has seen Utaemon perform live describes a similar feeling, of having seen something quite different from all the other great actors. I'm truly jealous!

[@agrebennikov]

@@KabukiInDepth Yes, that definitely was. He performed Sumidagawa, luckily captured and released on video, but the vibrations between him and the audience was very special thing that can't be reproduced in any form, alas. As a true great actor he had the ability to trasnform every simple thing or movement on stage into something amazing and unique. And after the performance he was signing authographs and he looked so friendly, simple and modest, that it was hard to believe that it was one of the greatest actors of the XXth century before you.

[@stanleygagner]

Even in video tapes, Utaemon VI has so much force as an actor that it's almost scary! I recently saw a very short clip of Utaemon V playing Yodogimi, and there was a certain indescribable quality that both he and his son have.

[@johnnie543]

He was, in my opinion, the Yamada Isuzu of kabuki

[@KabukiInDepth]

A great actress indeed! I love his early work with Mizoguchi, and his later films with Naruse, Kurosawa, Ozu...

[@johnnie543]

@@KabukiInDepth Yamada's early work with Mizoguchi in the 1930s is definitely remarkable for a girl her age!

[@BeautyMirror01]

歌右衛門さんに並ぶ人は現代には現れないな。