Yukio Ninagawa

was a Japanese theatre director. He was known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies. He has directed "Hamlet" differently eight times. He also directed "Titus Andronicus", "Coriolanus" and "Macbeth". He was also a movie director. He directed the 2003 movie "Ao no Honō".
Ninagawa died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo on May 12, 2016, aged 80.