Pacific Overtures

Year: 1976

Runtime: 140 mins

Language: English

Directors: Hal Prince, Marty Pasetta

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Stephen Sondheim’s kabuki‑style adaptation dramatizes Japan’s forced opening to the West in 1853. The narrative tracks the nation’s rapid Westernization through two protagonists—a samurai named Kayama and a humble fisherman, Manjiro—whose lives are upended when American warships arrive on Japanese shores.

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