The character of Asaji (Lady Macbeth) — whose expressionless face is often compared to a mask — personifies Kurosawa’s experiments with Noh, many of which also appear in his iconic 1950 film Rashomon.

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Credit: National Library of Australia Dr Tets Kimura will give a lecture on Japanese Noh and War Art in Cowra as part of an event which reconstructs a Noh stage at the Japanese garden in Cowra , NSW.