Yakiniku Dragon (2018) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Yakiniku Dragon (2018)

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• To fill the stage with the smoke and smell of a real yakiniku restaurant, the production grilled 300 grams of beef offal over charcoal at every performance. After a fire during an opera at the Seoul Arts Center in December 2007, it was offered an electric grill, but insisted on charcoal.
• The script has 1,709 lines of dialogue: 69.7 percent of them are in Japanese, 13.2 percent in Korean, and the remainder are wordless passages.
• Dialogue not in a performer's native language was subtitled on black screens at the sides of the stage. Made in PowerPoint, up to four lines of ten characters per page, the subtitles ran to 1,520 pages and were projected vertically in Japan and horizontally in Korea.
• Playwright Chong Wishing's own family home, which stood in the stone wall of the outer moat of Himeji Castle, was demolished by force, and the experience became the basis for an episode in the play.
• Before writing, Chong Wishing researched villages erased by the development of Expo '70, and the Itami Nakamura district beside Osaka International Airport, which he visited, became the model for the play's setting, "N district by I airport".
• Because directions had to be given through interpreters, rehearsals took twice the usual time and the cast and crew grew stressed during the month and a half of rehearsal. Having every instruction translated also deepened the company's shared understanding of the staging.