Yukio Ninagawa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yukio Ninagawa

Japanese theatre director

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1935

Place of Birth: Kawaguchi, Kantō region, Japan

Date of Death: 12-May-2016

Profession: actor, impresario, film director, theater director

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Yukio Ninagawa (?? ??, Ninagawa Yukio, October 15, 1935 – May 12, 2016) was a Japanese theatre director, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies.
He directed Hamlet differently eight times. Although most famous abroad for his touring productions of European classics, Ninagawa also directed works based on contemporary writing from Japan, including the Modern Noh plays of Yukio Mishima (which toured to New York's Lincoln Center in early summer 2005) and several other plays by Japanese dramatists, including Shuji Terayama and Kunio Shimizu.
His production of Titus Andronicus was performed in England in June 2006, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford and the Theatre Royal in Plymouth.
In 2007 his company participated in the Barbican International Theatre Event (BITE) series at the Barbican Arts Centre in London, with their production of Coriolanus.