Music · TV Movie

Pacific Overtures

Name: Pacific Overtures
Director: Marty Pasetta
Genre: Music, TV Movie
Released: 1976-09-06
Rating: 9.0
Cast: Mako, Soon-Tek Oh, Yuki Shimoda, Sab Shimono, Isao Sato

Stephen Sondheim's kabuki retelling of the opening of Japan to the West.

9.0(1) 9/6/1976 2h 20m

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In 1853 Japan, the story of Kayama, a samurai, and Manjiro, a fisherman, sets the backdrop of the Westernization of Japan. The lives of both men are radically changed by the coming of American ships to Japan.

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Mako

Reciter/Shogun/Jonathan Goble

Soon-Tek Oh

Tamate/Samurai/Storyteller/Swordsman

Yuki Shimoda

Abe, First Councillor

Sab Shimono

Manjiro

Isao Sato

Kayama

Alvin Ing

Shogun's Mother/Observer/Merchant/American Admiral

Ernest Harada

Physician/Madam/British Admiral

James Dybas

Second Councillor/Old Man/French Admiral

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