The Face of Jizo

Chichi to Kuraseba
The Face of Jizo
Die Tage mit Vater
Mio Padre

Chichi to Kuraseba (The Face of Jizo)
Author	Hisashi Inoue
Original title	Chichi to Kuraseba
Translator	Roger Pulvers ,
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Publisher	Shinchosha
Publication date	January 2001
Published in English	August 2004
Pages	126, 191
ISBN	978-4-10-116828-9 ISBN 978-4-9902115-0-9

The Face of Jizo (父と暮せば, Chichi to Kuraseba) is a Japanese play written by Hisashi Inoue.

Plays[]

• It was performed by as their 34th Play, from September 3 to 18, 1994, directed by , starring by and Kei Suma.^[1] It has been performed frequently not only all over Japan but also overseas. Paris in 1997, Moscow in 2001, Hong Kong in 2004 and London in 2007.^[2][3]
• Now, the play is performed by Komatsuza and some theatrical companies.

Books[]

The play Chichi to Kuraseba (Living with my Father) is published by Shinchosha in 2001.^[4]

The play was transferred into three languages and published by .

• The Face of Jizo in English by Roger Pulvers in 2004.^[5]
• Die Tage mit Vater (The Day with Father) in German by in 2006.
• Mio Padre (My Father) in Italian by and in 2006,.

CD[]

The play is recorded for a CD with starring and , published by Shinchosha, on April 25, 2003.^[6]

Film[]

The play is adapted for a film Chichi to Kuraseba directed by Kazuo Kuroki, starring by Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada and Tadanobu Asano, in 2004. It was filmed as the 3rd and concluding volume of Kazuo Kuroki's Trilogy works for War Requiem.

See also[]

• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

References[]

External links[]

• Komatsuza
• The Face of Jizo The public reading events in Toronto and Vancouver, 2004–2006
• The Face of Jizo at Arcola Theatre in London, 2007
• The Face of Jizo Play of the Month of The Japan Foundation, in August 2007
• Performing Father–Daughter Love "Inoue Hisashi's Face of Jizo" by
• Chichi to Kuraseba - TV Tokyo Medianet - rerun the film at in 2005
• Chichi to Kuraseba