Yasuhiko Ohasi

Yasuhiko Ohashi was born in 1956 and founded his theatre troupe Libresen (Freedom Boat) in 1983. Godzilla was written and directed by Ohashi in 1987 and received the Kishida Kunio Drama Award. Ohashi’s major theatre works are Camellia Flower (1993), a time travel story that goes back to the moment of the famous suicide by an advertising copywriter in the 1970s and Original (2001), a semi-horror stories of bodies invaded by lost souls. Ohashi is also a regular writer for NJK Television, Japan’s national public broadcasting station. A cultural staple, Godzilla has toured repeatedly throughout Japan.

M. Cody Poulton teaches Japanese literature and theatre at the University of Victoria. Recent publications include Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyôka in Volumes I and II of Kabuki Plays on Stage (2002) and two contemporary plays for Volumes IV and V of Half a Century of Japanese Theatre (2002, 2003).