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Pacific Overtures (TV 1976)

TV Movie  -   -  Musical  -  1976 (Japan)
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Cast overview, first billed only:
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Reciter / Shogun / Jonathan Goble
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Tamate / Samurai / Storyteller / Swordsman
Yuki Shimoda ...
Abe - First Councillor
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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 Syers ...
Samurai / Thief / Soothsayer / Warrior / Russian Admiral / British Sailor (as Mark Hsu Syers)
Patrick Kinser-Lau ...
Shogun's Companion / Dutch Admiral / British Sailor / Girl
Ernest Abuba ...
Samurai / Adams / Noble
Timm Fujii ...
Son / Priest / Girl / Noble / British Sailor
Haruki Fujimoto ...
Servant / Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry
Larry Hama ...
Williams / Lord of the South
Jae Woo Lee ...
Fisherman / Sumo Wrestler / Lord of the South
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This is the original Broadway production, which was videotaped for Japanese public television, and broadcast with subtitles. See more »

Quotes

Reciter: [sung] In the middle of the world we float/ in the middle of the sea/ The realities remain remote/ in the middle of the sea. Kings are burning somewhere/ Wheels are turning somewhere/ Trains are being run, wars are being won, things are being done/ Somewhere out there - not here. Here we paint screens; Yes! The arrangement of the screens.
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Reciter: We sit inside the screens/ and contemplate the view/ that's painted on the screens/ more beautiful than true/ And no one presses in/ and no one glances ...
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"Someone In A Tree"
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Performed by James Dybas, Mako, Gedde Watanabe and Mark Syers
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