Rio Kishida

Rio Kishida
Born(1946-01-03)January 3, 1946
Okaya, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
DiedJune 28, 2003(2003-06-28) (aged 57)
Okaya, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Occupation(s)dramatist, writer

Rio Kishida (岸田 理生, Kishida Rio, 1946–2003[1]) was a Japanese playwright and director. She wrote several plays about women and the problems they faced in a patriarchal society that run parallel with the second wave of the feminist movement in Japan. Even though she did not strictly identify herself as a feminist, she believed that the system of a male dominated society had to change in order for women to gain equal rights as their male counterpart.[2]

  1. ^ "Kishida Rio". Kotobanku. Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  2. ^ Cody, Gabrielle (2007). The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 769.