Ninagawa, who won acclaim for a samurai-style Macbeth at the Edinburgh festival, had been suffering from pneumoniaYukio Ninagawa, the world-renowned Japanese stage director known for his adaptations of Shakespeare, has died at a Tokyo hospital. He was 80.Ninagawa debuted as a director in 1969 and gained international fame at the 1985 Edinburgh festival when he directed a samurai-style Macbeth in which the actors perf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AM on May 12, 2016