Juro Kara, playwright who helped shape Japan’s postwar avant-garde theatre, dies at 84
Juro Kara, who helped shape Japan’s postwar avant-garde theater, defiantly yet playfully transforming the essence of Kabuki aesthetics into modern storytelling, has died. He was 84.
The playwright, director and troupe leader died late Saturday from a blood hospital on 1 May, his theatre group Karagumi said in a statement on Sunday.
