Ichikawa Ebizo XI (Ichikawa Shinnosuke VII)

The poster of the movie "Deguchi no nai Umi" - From the movie's official web site

Ebizo and the talented young actor Fujiwara Tatsuya - From the book "Shinsei - Creating New Forms":

Hi etoile !!!!! Sorry for not answering to your question before. I haven't been posting here on j-dorama much lately ...
Looks like Ebizo and Somegoro never been on stage together. I looked for a performance of them together on Kabuki-21 website's databasis, but I haven't found anything.
I've watched Somegoro's performances in the dorama "Pride" and in the movie "Ashura", and I must say he's amazing !!!! It would be fabulous to watch Ebizo and Somegoro together on stage ...[/quote]

Hi Betsy!!! It's soo great to have you back!! Yeah you haven't been posting a lot recently, girl. Why? I hope everything's okay there...

I wonder why Ebizo and Somegoro have never been on stage together. Probably because they belong to different acting house or yago? But just as you said that it would be fabulous to see both of them in one film at least.

Hanbok, I love the screencaps you posted!!! :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
I can't wait for the movie to come out. Ebi-sama certainly look great there! Ah Ebi-sama :inlove: :inlove:

Betsy-san, shinsei wa donna hon desuka? Is it a magazine or something?
Can you get Ebi-sama's pics from that book?
I belong to a community of jdorama in my country but Ebi-sama is barely known there. Except me!!! I'm so fond of this guy. Ebizo :inlove: :inlove:
So thanks a lot for the great pics Betsy and Hanbok! :bow: :bow: :bow:

Betsy Hayashi wrote:

Hi Hanbok !!!!!!! Long time no see !!!!! :mrgreen:
Thanks a lot for these amazing screencaps !!!!!!!! Love them all !!!!:smitten:

Hi Betsy and etoile, hai tadaima^^

Ah so lucky France ppl.. seems Kabuki is on the show frequent there :shakehead:

etoile wrote:
Hi Betsy!!! It's soo great to have you back!! Yeah you haven't been posting a lot recently, girl. Why? I hope everything's okay there...

I wonder why Ebizo and Somegoro have never been on stage together. Probably because they belong to different acting house or yago? But just as you said that it would be fabulous to see both of them in one film at least.

Thanks a lot, etoile !!!!! Yeah, I've been so lazy lately ... That's the reason why I'm not posting here much often ... Shame on me ... :sweat: :shakehead: :shakehead: :beaten:

No, they have never been on stage together for some reason I don't know, it's not because they belong to different acting houses ... For example, Onoe Kikunosuke and Ebizo belong to different lines of acting, but are almost always together on stage. The fact of belonging to the same line of acting is not important to define the actors who will appear together on stage.
So, I hope they'll be on a play together soon !!!!!!

etoile wrote:Betsy-san, shinsei wa donna hon desuka? Is it a magazine or something?
Can you get Ebi-sama's pics from that book?
I belong to a community of jdorama in my country but Ebi-sama is barely known there. Except me!!! I'm so fond of this guy. Ebizo :inlove: :inlove:
So thanks a lot for the great pics Betsy and Hanbok! :bow: :bow: :bow:

"Shinsei" is a mix of photobook and magazine. It's what the japanese usually call "mook" (magazine+book). It's totally dedicated to Ebizo and contains a lot of Ebizo's pics in and out of stage and a long interview with him, interviews done by Ebizo with some celebrities (like Matsu Takako, Fujiwara Tatsuya, the Dragon Ash's vocalist Furuya Kenji and others) and a long interview with Ichikawa Danjuro. It was released in 2000, when he played for the first time the role of Sukeroku ("Sukeroku Yukari Edo no Sakura").
Yeah, I'll post the pics of this book here, like I've done with the other photobooks of Ebizo ("Juichidaime Shumei Kinen Shashinshu", "Shinnosuke" and "Soshite Ebizo").
Oh, I know how you feel. When I joined j-dorama, it was only me and a few people who had watched "Musashi" at that time and knew him. And I was the only person who posted in this thread for a long long time ... :sweat: :sweat: :sweat:

hanbok wrote:
Ah so lucky France ppl.. seems Kabuki is on the show frequent there :shakehead:

Yeah, hanbok, I'm so jealous ... Why wasn't I born in France ?????? :puppydog: :puppydog: :puppydog: :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:

Time for pics !!!!!
One more from Tarzan Magazine, issue 11/ 25 January 2006:

The last (and my favorite) pic from Tarzan Mag, 11/25 january 2006:

Scan of the cover of Rentier Magazine, issue March 2006:

One last scan for Rentier Magazine, March 2006:

A pic from Yahoo! Auctions:

Pages of a 2001 issue of MR Magazine. From Yahoo! Auctions:

An old telephone card with a young Ebizo at right. Also from Yahoo! Auctions:

Pics from a recent CM for Ito-en's Oi-ocha. To watch this CM

Scene of the play "Kasane": Ichikawa Kamejiro at left as Kasane, Ebizo at right as Yoemon. Pic from

More of a photo session for MR Magazine. From Yahoo! Auctions:

Those pic ar from the official site of the NHK show "Studio Park Kara Konnichiwa":