Gregory Stroud
1) The Mikado
Series
Criterion collection volume 559
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The legendary Gilbert and Sullivan troupe, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the fabled comic opera, the first complete work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen, directed by musician and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Victor Schertzinger. The result is a lavish cinematic retelling of the British political satire set in exotic Japan. Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado of Japan, fled his...
2) The Mikado
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A spoof of Victorian English society. Presents the story of a lowly tailor's transformation from prisoner in a country jail to the rank of Lord High Executioner and a Japanese prince who is on the run from an arranged marriage.