Kyoto Journal Issue 26

Monologist, television and film actor, short story writer, illustrator, Isse Ogata is a renaissance man in the stratified world of Japanese arts. On stage, his breadth and depth are unparallelled and his artistry shows the marks of genius: original, immediately recognizable, and impossible to imitate. In the live performances which vaulted him to fame, Ogata introduces a human zoo inhabited by society’s male dropouts and down-and-outs: the failed salesman, unhappy lover, lecherous teacher, panhandler, ex-husband, lonely civil servant, workaholic father… A few of them keep reappearing as familiar friends, serial players in the lonely-hearts club band: the acerbic Bartender, the unemployed Man with the Eyebrows, the Born-again Evangelist. But most Ogata characters are one-timers, destined to make a quick, often indelible mark on an audience and never to return.

— Jonah Salz, Everyman with a Thousand Faces

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Cover Image by Takeda Yoshifumi
74pp
published April 1, 1994

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