Beijing News (reporter Liu Zhen) On November 21, according to Japanese media reports, the famous film costume designer Emi Wada died in Tokyo on November 13 at the age of 84. Director Li Liuyi sent a tribute at the first time he learned the news. Lee has collaborated with Emi Wada on the ballet Peony Pavilion, the play King Lear and the opera Wilderness.
Emi Wada and Lee Roku-yi. Image from Li Liuyi's Weibo
Li Liuyi wrote that the two of them had agreed to cooperate in "Oedipus King", and every cooperation between them and every meeting between them was full of imagination, full of warmth, and full of enjoyment.
The full text is as follows:
The first message I heard when I woke up in the morning was so cruel: Japanese film and drama costume design master Megumi Wada died in Tokyo, Japan on the 13th. Died on December 31, 2012 at the age of 84 Utter sorrow! We also collaborated on Oedipus The King. I didn't expect you to drive away so suddenly, endless sadness and darkness. Mr. Wada has been a movie for drama all his life, and every cooperation and every meeting we have met is full of imagination, full of warmth, and full of enjoyment.
Beijing Li Liuyi Drama Studio and the National Centre for the Performing Arts jointly produced the play "King Lear", and Emi Wada was trying on costumes for the actors. Courtesy of Beijing Li Liuyi Drama Studio
She is so soft and firm, like water! Bring life. She spoke softly and never superfluously, but thoughts were always clear and accurate. The scene of her kneeling on the ground folding her clothes will forever be engraved in my memory, she said: They are alive, we must take good care of them.
Stills from the ballet "Peony Pavilion". Courtesy of Beijing Li Liuyi Drama Studio
This is her attitude towards each piece of clothing that she designs and makes herself. She loves these clothes, and she loves every life that these clothes express, they are alive. Mr. Wada loves beauty, and every time he sees her, she is always so simple and beautiful, and the colors are gorgeous and noble. Like to watch her smoke, she holds a small container of shaking soot in her hand, very quiet, she is enjoying her in meditation she is watching, watching the world's restless figure flowing through endlessly, and she is never driven by all kinds of fame and fortune in the world, she won the Oscar Costume Design Award early, won countless world reputations, and her life is just quietly sewing her own free clothes free of artistic freedom beauty! Beautiful as water! Sir! We still have a lot of things to do, and you want to take me to see Haruki Murakami's adaptation of "1Q84" for me, and we also have the "Oedipus King" that you are familiar with. Mr. Wada rests in peace! Thank you for bringing me countless inspirations, bringing me the quietness of being a human being, and bringing me a beautiful soul to cherish every life! Thank you Mr. Wada! Love you!
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
Edited by Xu Meilin Proofreader Wu Xingfa