Murata kicked off the conversation explaining what Kabuki theater offers Japanese audiences by having it as the film’s backdrop and discussed their desire to center a story about a young boy who, ...
The Oscar-nominated trio behind Japan’s box office sensation explains how bintsuke paste, copper-based wigs and centuries of ...
Ken Watanabe, Japan’s leading international star, tackles a truly different kind of role in the decades-spanning drama “Kokuho.” ...
On stage, one of Japan's biggest Kabuki stars changes roles in an instant. Offstage, it took decades
TOKYO (AP) — Onstage, Danjuro Ichikawa, one of the biggest stars of Japan's Kabuki theater, is a virtuoso in switching roles. In his latest production, he plays 13 parts, including a princess, a sushi ...
It’s not often that a film that showcase elements of traditional Kabuki theater reaches American audiences like Kokuho. It’s one of the types of theater where makeup plays an absolutely essential ...
The Oscar-nominated Kokuho tells a compelling story about friendship, the weight of history and the torturous road to becoming a star in Japan's Kabuki theater.
TOKYO — A three-hour film about the esoteric world of Kabuki is defying the odds at the Japanese box office, with tickets selling out at some cinemas. “Kokuho,” which means “national treasure,” has ...
When Lee Sang-il's Kabuki drama "Kokuho" first played at Cannes, its veteran star Ken Watanabe, who plays the mentor to two rising onnagata in his Kabuki theater, had no idea the film would become the ...
Kokuho, an expansive if slightly meandering drama about art, ambition and aging from director Lee Sang-il, begins with a violent death. Specifically, it’s the death of a yakuza leader in 1964 Nagasaki ...
As part of Variety’s Screening Series, “Kokuho” production designer Yohei Taneda and producer Chieko Murata joined Variety’s co-editor-in-chief Cynthia Littleton for a candid conversation about the ...
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