Ninagawa Yukio

(1935- ). Theater director. Born in Saitama Prefecture. Ninagawa specialized in shifting the setting of classic Western plays to Japan, as he did in 1981 with Macbeth and in 1987 with The Tempest. In 1984 he established a theater company that is now known as the Young Ninagawa Company. (adapted from Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993)