{"id":56793,"date":"2021-11-21T21:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/emi-wada-oscar-winning-ran-costume-designer-dies-at-84\/"},"modified":"2021-11-21T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T15:52:00","slug":"emi-wada-oscar-winning-rancostume-designer-dies-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/emi-wada-oscar-winning-rancostume-designer-dies-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Emi Wada, Oscar-Winning \u2018Ran\u2019Costume Designer, Dies at"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Emi Wada, the Oscar-winning costume designer of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s \u201cRan,\u201dAccording to the Associated Press, she has died. She was 84.<\/p>\n

Wada died on Saturday, November 13 \u2014 confirmed by family members to Japanese media \u2014 and no cause of death was immediately given, according to the AP.<\/p>\n

Her work goes beyond her. \u201cRan,\u201d Wada earned acclaim for her costume designs for Peter Greenaway\u2019s \u201cProspero\u2019s Books\u201d as well as Zhang Yimou\u2019s \u201cHero\u201d \u201cHouse of Flying Daggers.\u201d Wada was also prolific in stage costuming, designing costumes for operas including Tan Dun\u2019s \u201cThe First Emperor\u201d and the National Ballet of China\u2019s performance of \u201cThe Peony Pavillion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wada also designed the costumes for the 2018 Chinese adaptation of Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0\u201cKing Lear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Accepting her Oscar \u201cRan\u201dIn 1986, Wada made fun of Kurosawa. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t need my costuming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emi Wada was born in\u00a0Japan\u2019s Kyoto Prefecture. She married Ben Wada, a TV director, when she was twenty-two. Emi Wada wanted to be a painter when she was younger. However, after getting married, she switched to designing on-screen costumes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOver the 60 years I\u2019ve been doing this work, I\u2019ve never gotten tired of it,\u201dWada stated this in a video message sent to the Tokyo International Film Festival 2017 audience. \u201cI see myself as really lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wada published many books about her work and costumes throughout her career.\u00a0\u201cMy Costumes,\u201d\u00a0\u201cEMI WADA WORKS,\u201d\u00a0\u201cMy Life in the Making.\u201d Most recently, in 2020, Wada designed the costumes for Ann Hui\u2019s \u201cLove After Love,\u201dIt premiered at Venice International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Media reports stated that funeral services were held with close family and friends.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emi Wada, the Oscar-winning costume designer of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s \u201cRan,\u201dAccording to the Associated Press, she has died. She was 84. Wada died on Saturday, November 13 \u2014 confirmed by family members to Japanese media \u2014 and no cause of death was immediately given, according to the AP. Her work goes beyond her. \u201cRan,\u201d Wada earned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":56794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Emi-Wada-Oscar-Winning-\u2018Ran-Costume-Designer-Dies-at-84.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}