Ranko Miyama File

Unlike many film stars of her time who avoided the stage, Ranko Miyama embraced live theater with fierce dedication. In 1964, she stunned the industry by turning down three major film offers to star in a Mishima Yukio play, Sado Kōshaku Fujin (The Duchess of Sado). Mishima himself praised her performance, writing in a letter, "Ranko Miyama does not act. She becomes the wound."

Throughout the 1970s, as her film appearances became less frequent (partly due to her refusal to participate in the then-rising roman porno genre, which she publicly called "exploitation disguised as art"), Miyama shifted her focus to avant-garde theater. She founded her own small troupe, Miyama Gekijō, which performed experimental works in a 50-seat basement theater in Shinjuku. This period is less documented but is considered by theatrical purists to be her finest work. ranko miyama

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