Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama as Kikuo and Shunsuke, rival kabuki actors in Japanese Oscar submission "Kokuho." - Sayuri ...

Every actor in kabuki -- a traditional Japanese performing art celebrated for its striking makeup and elaborate costumes -- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s not often that a film that showcase elements of traditional Kabuki theater reaches American audiences like Kokuho. It’s one ...

Ahead of a show at the famed Kabuki-za theater in central Tokyo, wig master Tadashi Kamoji carefully places a topknot ...

Handing down a name over generations is a central part of the Japanese traditional theater art of Kabuki, and that ceremony gets celebrated at theaters and special events every few years.

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Director Sang-il Lee sets his epic-scaled "Kokuho" in the vivid world of kabuki theater, but it’s not just the movie’s milieu that distinguishes it. Spanning 50 years and running nearly three hours, ...

(CNN) — In the movie “Kokuho,” a three-hour epic spanning half a century in the life of a fictional kabuki actor, we see the traditional art form slowly retreat from Japanese popular culture. What was ...

Kabuki actors, Kikunosuke Onoe, left, and the eighth Kikugoro Onoe, right, attend a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents's Club of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, on March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuri ...

TOKYO (AP) — Handing down a name over generations is a central part of the Japanese traditional theater art of Kabuki, and that ceremony gets celebrated at theaters and special events every few years.