Tate
In our drama Nocturne, there is a scene two samurai fight each other with their swords. We call it "Tate (殺陣)". Tate is a traditional form of Japanese entertainment best explained as choreographed samurai sword-fighting for the stage or the screen.
Tate and Chanbara are very popular now, and there are lots of classes to learn Tate in Tokyo. I think this is because there has been many movies related to samurai these years; Last Samurai, Kill Bill, Zatouichi, Tasogare Seibei, Mibugishiden etc.
There are some actors in Japan who is good at Tate, and Seizo Fukumoto seems the most popular actor among that. He is known as kirareyaku, the person who loses the sword fight. The film Last Samurai brought him before an international audience in the role of the silent samurai.
If you can't afford to learn Tate in classes, you can learn it by a book or on the web! But it is the best way to learn it from Tate-shi (殺陣師), the person who teaches Tate.
Tate and Chanbara are very popular now, and there are lots of classes to learn Tate in Tokyo. I think this is because there has been many movies related to samurai these years; Last Samurai, Kill Bill, Zatouichi, Tasogare Seibei, Mibugishiden etc.
There are some actors in Japan who is good at Tate, and Seizo Fukumoto seems the most popular actor among that. He is known as kirareyaku, the person who loses the sword fight. The film Last Samurai brought him before an international audience in the role of the silent samurai.
If you can't afford to learn Tate in classes, you can learn it by a book or on the web! But it is the best way to learn it from Tate-shi (殺陣師), the person who teaches Tate.
posted by nabocha @ 5:21 AM
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