What is Yukio Ninagawa?
{{Infobox person | name = Yukio Ninagawa<br>蜷川幸雄 | image =Yukio Ninagawa.jpg | caption = 2010 Cultural Medal recipient | birthname = | birth_date = October 15, 1935 | birth_place = [[Kawaguchi, Saitama]], [[Japan]] | death_date = May 12, 2016 (aged 80) | death_place = [[Tokyo]], Japan | othername = | occupation = [[Theatre director]]<br>[[Film director]] | yearsactive = 1969&ndash;2016 | spouse = | domesticpartner = | website = }} {{nihongo|'''Yukio Ninagawa'''|蜷川 幸雄|''Ninagawa Yukio''|extra=October 15, 1935 &ndash; May 12, 2016}} was a [[Japan]]ese theatre director. He was known for his [[Japanese language]] productions of [[Shakespeare]] plays and [[Greek tragedies]]. He has directed ''[[Hamlet]]'' differently eight times. He also directed ''[[Titus Andronicus]]'', ''[[Coriolanus]]'' and ''[[Macbeth]]''. He was also a movie director. He directed the 2003 movie ''[[Ao no Honō]]''. Ninagawa died of [[pneumonia]] at a hospital in [[Tokyo]] on May 12, 2016, aged 80.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/may/12/yukio-ninagawa-shakespeare-dies-aged-80 Yukio Ninagawa, masterful director of Shakespeare, dies aged 80] The Guardian, 12 May 2016.</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * {{IMDb name|0386729}} * [http://www.ninagawastudio.net/ Ninagawa Studio website] * [http://www.my-pro.co.jp/ninagawa/ Yukio Ninagawa official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516215415/http://my-pro.co.jp/ninagawa/ |date=2016-05-16 }} {{in lang|ja}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ninagawa, Yukio}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from pneumonia]] [[Category:Japanese movie directors]] [[Category:Theatre directors]]