Ken Watanabe, Japan’s leading international star, tackles a truly different kind of role in the decades-spanning drama ...

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 ...

"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 ...

“Kabuki Modern” is a compelling exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings celebrating the world of kabuki from the late 19th century through the 1950s. Curated by Dr. Rhiannon Paget, The ...

In celebration of our Tsuruya Kōkei: Kabuki Prints Revised & Revisited exhibition, join us to transform into a Kabuki actor for the night! Makeup is one of the most important parts of the Kabuki ...

Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its ...

Edwin Booth did it. So did John Barrymore. But it has been many moons since a Shakespearean actor in the United States became a superstar on the basis of his classical stage prowess. In modern Japan, ...

Kabuki performance was born more than 400 years ago and in Edo era it was established to formal one. It has many fixed Japanese fans and new global fans. But History of Kabuki was not so smooth or ...

An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago features over 30 of Tōshūsai Sharaku’s rarely shown ukiyo-e prints exemplifying the classic Japanese theater genre. Tōshūsai Sharaku, "The Actor Segawa ...

Would you play a fighting game based on the Japanese art of Kabuki? That was the question that Japanese developers Genki and Lightweight apparently asked themselves at some point in 2000. In Japan it ...