FILE - Ichikawa Ennnosuke, director and actor of Japanese Kabuki traditional theater, is awarded the Paris city vermeil medal by a city hall official at the Chatelet Theater following a performance, ...

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 century-old kabuki theatre in Dotonbori may live on after all – possibly in a new building on the same site ...

TOKYO (AP) — Handing down a name over generations is a central part of the Japanese traditional theater art of Kabuki, and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 once a ...

Children performing Kabuki theater have attracted crowds to a festival in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. The Nagahama ...

In the traditional Japanese art form, which featured in the Oscar-nominated Kokuho, names and skills are passed down through ...

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 ...

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 ...