Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amid another anxiety-inducing year for the theatrical film business, one of 2025’s few unmistakably hopeful signs came in a most ...

Out of all traditional Japanese performing arts, Kabuki (which literally translates to “the art of singing and dancing” in English) is likely the most recognizable to Western cultures, with its ...

Ken Watanabe, Japan’s leading international star, tackles a truly different kind of role in the decades-spanning drama “Kokuho.” An Oscar nominee for its makeup and hairstyling, “Kokuho” is set in the ...

Two of the greatest stars of Japan’s kabuki theater reveal what has only rarely been seen: the actual acting techniques used in this most difficult and splendid of theater forms. Onoe Shoroku II and ...

Amid another anxiety-inducing year for the theatrical film business, one of 2025's few unmistakably hopeful signs came in a most unexpected form: Japanese period drama Kokuho. A nearly three-hour epic ...

With the film set as Japan’s official Oscar submission, Lee Sang-il discusses the 15-year journey behind his kabuki epic, guiding stars Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama through rigorous stage ...