Akihiro Miwa

Akihiro Miwa (美輪明宏 Miwa Akihiro ); born Maruyama Akihiro the May 15th 1935 with Nagasaki is a emblematic Japanese artistic figure, lyric writer, type-setter, actor, Drag queen, writer, and singer of Cabaret Transformiste.

Its books, with the number of a score to date, count among best the sales of bookstore.

Biography

Its family held a small coffee. After having seen a film entitled " Servant boy Soprano " at the 11 years age, he stated his dream to go up on the boards as a singer and entered to the Japanese National university of Music at the 15 years age.

Started its professional path as a singer of cabaret with Ginza at the 17 years age with its arrived at Tokyo (1952), singing there in various night clubs its preferred French songs of Edith Piaf to Yvette Guilbert while passing by Marie Dubas.

Its celebrity started in 1957 with the tube Meke-Meke. Its type of atypical effeminate beauty among the mediate ones making fury.

Producer and actor like his idol Ishihara Yujiro and great love of its life Mishima Yukio . Its relation started with this one when this last complimented it in a cabaret while saying to him, " Maruyama, you have only one weakness. It is that you could never fall in love with moi."

Miwa wrote many very committed books about the social and military problems, consequence of its great experiment of worst of these subjects, being itself survivor of the atomic explosion of Nagasaki of which it was left relatively saved but always very critical against the government as a whole his concerts.

Cinema and Theater

Especially recognized as a singer of Cabaret, it appears in many films of which the first was Aomori-ken No Shimushi Otoko of Shuji Terayama in 1967.

He plays in the black lizard of Kinji Fukasaku in 1968 adapted novel éponyme of Edogawa Rampo going back to 1934, at the sides of Mishima Yukio, component and interpreting the musical topic there consequently occasion. Mishima adapts for it the black Lizard to the theater the following year.

In 2005, it appears in Takeshis' of Takeshi Kitano.

Its more recent known international appearance was its work in the Cartoon films of Miyazaki Hayao, Princesse Mononoke and the travelling Castle .

External bonds

The bomb of Nagasaki

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