Pacific Overtures
1976 · 140 min · Music, TV Movie
Stephen Sondheim's kabuki retelling of the opening of Japan to the West.
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.
- Directors
- Marty Pasetta, Hal Prince
- Writers
- John Weidman, Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler
- Released
- September 6, 1976
- Language
- English
Cast
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
Mark Hsu Syers
Samurai/Thief/Soothsayer/Warrior/Russian Admiral/British Sailor
Patrick Kinser-Lau
Shogun's Companion/Dutch Admiral/British Sailor/Girl
Ernest Abuba
Samurai/Adams/Noble
Larry Hama
Williams/Lord of the South
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