Kokuhô
In post-war Japan's economic boom, gangster family-born Kikuo Tachibana finds himself adopted by a kabuki actor. Despite life's challenges, he develops into a gifted performer.
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"A three-hour runtime ought to be a form of torture, especially for a modern audience conditioned to fragmented storytelling. Yet, National Treasure achieves the near-impossible: it holds you breathless in the dark, eyes fixed on the screen, tracing the life of Tachibana Kikuo from the snowy landscapes of a Nagasaki ryotei to the final curtain call of The Heron Maiden. You find yourself unwilling to even blink. This isn't a film that relies on bloodshed or plot twists to stimulate the nerves; rather, it uses the purest artistic language to show you how a person pays the price of their enti..."
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The novel's author, Shuichi Yoshida, devoted immense time to research by spending an unprecedented three years working backstage as a Kurogo (a stagehand dressed in black to signify being 'invisible'). This deep, firsthand experience in the actors' dressing rooms and on stage is what gave the novel, and consequently the film, its profound authenticity regarding the Kabuki world.
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In post-war Japan's economic boom, gangster family-born Kikuo Tachibana finds himself adopted by a kabuki actor. Despite life's challenges, he develops into a gifted performer.