Kawarasaki Kunitaro IV
- Name: Kawarasaki Kunitaro IV
- Native name: 河原崎國太郎
- Also Known as: Jitsukawa Entaro II, Jitsukawa Enshi, 實川延枝, 実川延枝, 実川延太郎, 實川延太郎, 河原崎国太郎
- Nationality: Japanese
- Gender: Male
- Born: February 11, 1888
- Died: August 13, 1919
August 1919: Kunitarô appears on stage for the last time, at the Imperial Theater, playing the roles of Oyone's ghost and Okuni in the summer ghost play "Kaidan Botan Dôrô". He suddenly dies the 13th of August 1919, victim of a heart attack. People in the Kabuki world believed that he was, along with Onoe Kikujirô III, his stage partner in the play in the role of Otsuyu's ghost who died the 27th of August 1919, victim of a curse casted by real ghosts: "there is a superstition concerning The Peony Lantern to the effect that actors who play the ghosts' rôles soon pass away. This was brought home when the play was presented at the Imperial Theatre in August 1919. During the performances two of the most promising young actors of Tôkyô, taking the rôles of mistress and maid, took ill and died within a week of each other. Nightly they had been seen, pale-faced, the hair worn long and dishevelled, the maid with the ghostly lantern in hand, moving behind the willow tree. Soon they were to become like the shades they impersonated, no longer of the earth, earthy" (Zoë Kincaid in "Kabuki, the Popular Stage of Japan"). Edit Biography
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Sengoku Gunto Den Dai Ichibu: Toraokami
Japanese Movie, 1937,
Hidekuni Tokizaemon
(Support Role)
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Sengoku Gunto Den Dai Nibu: Akatsuki no Zenshin
Japanese Movie, 1937,
Hidekuni Tokizaemon
(Support Role)
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Kawanakajima Terutorahaizen
Japanese Movie, 1910,
(Main Role)
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Tsuya Monogatari
Japanese Movie, 1910,
(Support Role)
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