is the home base of Ningyo Joruri Bunraku, a type of traditional Japanese puppet theater comparable to Kabuki and Noh. I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate on Bunraku projects, writing ...

Director Lee Sang-il’s Kabuki drama “Kokuho,” screening at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, represents the culmination of a ...

The film centres on Kikuo, the son of a yakuza boss, who is taken under the wing of a renowned kabuki actor following the death of his father. The young man dedicates his life to the art of kabuki ...

In the Hawaiian Islands, where many Japanese people had immigrated since the Meiji Era (1868-1912), a unique, localized form of Kabuki has been developing for more than a century. Hawaiian Kabuki ...

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In her fiery performance she presented a unique vocal style, which drew on traditional Japanese Kabuki and Noh. The concert also featured two men tied together, moving across the stage in silence ...

It was just a lot of fun. I was 44 when we shot it, and the last time I'd done all my own stunts was for a movie called Bunraku when I was 29. Different set of circumstances, different body.

Her story appears in nō and bunraku plays. The seated image of Miroku is the oldest clay statue in Japan, and an outstanding example of Buddhist sculpture from the late Asuka period. The standing ...

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