{"id":1396,"date":"2012-02-23T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2012-02-23T16:06:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:06:55","slug":"re-staging-101st-proposal-in-the-edo-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Re-Staging “101st Proposal” in the Edo Period?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAs unlikely as it may seem, the hit 1991 Fuji Television series 101st Proposal<\/em> (see chapter six in my Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon<\/a><\/em>) is being revived next month as a stage play in Fukuoka. Takeda Tetsuya and Asano Atsuko will revive their roles from the original series–but the story is being reworked into a jidaigeki<\/em>: a samurai drama set back in the Edo period. <\/p>\n

The Asahi <\/em>newspaper reports (Japanese-language only)<\/a> the play will run at the Hakata-za<\/a> theatre in Fukuoka, March 2-28, with possible runs in Tokyo and elsewhere to follow. No word on whether the piece will include a shamisen version of the theme song from the show, Chage & Aska’s “Say Yes.”<\/p>\n