What is Kabuki drama? Kabuki is a popular Japanese theater form which experts date back to 17th century Kyoto, at the beginning of the Edo period. The drama employs vivid, elaborate costumes and ...
TOKYO — Ichimura Uzaemon, a Kabuki icon with encyclopedic knowledge of theater tradition, died Sunday at the age 84 of complications from lung cancer. “He is the last heavyweight in the Kabuki world,” ...
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 ...
On stage, one of Japan's biggest Kabuki stars changes roles in an instant. Offstage, it took decades
TOKYO — 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 chef ...
A three-hour movie about the fading art of kabuki has broken box office records in Japan. It may already be prompting a ...
"All you have to fight your detractors is the art of Kabuki." GKids has unveiled the official US trailer for an acclaimed Japanese film titled Kokuho, made by filmmaker Sang-il Lee. The title Kokuho ...
TOKYO >> Eno Ichikawa, who revived the spectacular in Japanese Kabuki theater to woo younger and global audiences, has died. He was 83. Ichikawa died after suffering heart problems on Wednesday in ...
You can see top independent films like "No Country for Old Men" and "Juno" at art-oriented movie houses around the Bay Area. But the elegant new Sundance Cinemas Kabuki in San Francisco is the only ...
While Junichiro Koizumi has transformed Japan politically and diplomatically, in economic affairs he has not managed to get much done. This may seem paradoxical. During his tenure in office, after all ...
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