Noda Hideki

Quick Facts

Full Name	Noda Hideki
Occupation	Theatre Director
Date Of Birth	Dec 20, 1955(1955-12-20)
Age	69
Country	Japan
Birth City	Saikai
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Noda Hideki Biography

Noda Hideki is one of the most popular and richest Theatre Director who was born on December 20, 1955 in Saikai, Japan. Hideki Noda (Ye Tian Xiu Shu , Noda Hideki born 20th December, 1955) is a well-known Japanese actor writer, playwright and theatre director who has written and directed over 40 theatre productions in Japan and is currently trying to bring the modern Japanese theatre to a worldwide public.

Noda was born in Nagasaki, Japan. He briefly went to Tokyo University to study law but he subsequently left the university. Noda premiered his first production called An Encounter between Love and Death in the second year at high school. The play he followed, The Advent of the Beast was well-received by the critics in 1981. It led to an invitation to take part in The Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland in which he had already performed in three years prior. In 2008, he was named artistic director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space in Ikebukuro and was appointed an instructor of the Department of Scenography Design, Drama,and Dance at Tama Art University.

The turning point in Noda’s career was in late 1992 while he was living in London. A year later, he founded Noda Map where he worked at kabukiand opera and produced his own plays. Noda’s plays have moved beyond the child’s dream world to social issues such as nationalism, colonialism, sexuality and crime. The major full-length works are Kill (Kiru, 1994) and Pandora’s Bell (Pandora no kane, 1999).

In 1992, Noda went to London to study theatre. When he returned to Japan, he started the independent company Noda Map, to promote and produce his own plays. He is currently held in high regard within the Japanese theatre community. Japanese theatre director Yukio Ninagawa said of him, “Hideki Noda is the most talented playwright in contemporary Japan.”

When he was just four years young, his family relocated to Kyushu in Kyushu to Tokyo. At his 16th birthday Noda composed and staged his first stage play. Together with his high-school buddies the play was named by Noda the play Ai to Shi to Mitsumete (Gaze into love and Death). In the year the year 1976 Noda created his theater company, Yume no Yuminsha (Dreaming Bohemian) at the time he was still attending Tokyo University as a law student. Yume no Yuminsha became the emblem of Japan’s vibrant youth theatre company and was the founder of a massive cultural movement during the 1980s, which was referred to by the name Sho-gekijo (Small-scale Theatre Movement).

Noda Hideki Net Worth

Noda Hideki is one of the richest Theatre Director from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Noda Hideki 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Between 1976 and the year 1992, Noda became famous for the “theater as a sport” approach to performing and displaying the fast-paced complex spectacles that proclaimed “boyhood” to the audience. The most notable productions include The Prisoner of Zenda Castle (Zenda-jo no toriko 1981) and Here Comes the Wild Beast (Nokemono kitarite 1984) that was distinguished by funny wordplay, speedy performance, and fast-paced movements.

His work is split into two distinct periods: the between 1976 and 1992, working with the Dream Wanderers theater company, and then in 1993, in 1993, with the Noda Map Production Company.

Yume no Yuminsha garnered enough popular reception to be invited to the Edinburgh international Theatre Festival in 1987 with Nokemono Kitarite, and in 1990 with Half Gods (Hanshin). Also in 1990, the company was invited to the first New York International Art Festival to perform Suisei no Siegfried (A Messenger from the Comet). Noda was getting more involved in working with other dramatists and actors outside of Yume no Yuminsha; which led to acclaimed stagings of his radical takes on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Both were collaborated with Toho, one of the Japan’s leading production companies.

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The English version was criticized by the Japanese media as no longer resembling Noda Hideki’s work – the translation lost the poetry and nuance that the Japanese work emphasized. Noda Hideki, while having studied abroad, is not known for his English-speaking ability and had the script translated and rewritten by English writers Roger Pulvers and Matt Wilkinson.

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Noda Ranked on the list of most popular Theatre Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Noda Hideki celebrates birthday on December 20 of every year.

At the age of 27, Noda won Japan’s most prestigious theatre accolade, the Kishida Prize for Drama for Nokemono Kitarite (Descent of the Brutes). Tickets to his plays became the hottest of all to get a hold of. Further pushed by Japan’s economy, Yume no Yuminsha broke all kinds of records by drawing as much as 26,000 audience to a one-day event at which Noda staged his version of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelungs presented as a Stonehenge trilogy at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo.