As part of Variety's Screening Series, "Kokuho" production designer Yohei Taneda and producer Chieko Murata joined Variety's ...

Backstage melodrama meets succession saga in Sang-il Lee's feature, which is toplined by Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama ...

"What a beautiful face... But be careful. Your beautiful face might consume you." Definitely. GKids has revealed a second ...

If the story of coronavirus has dominated your thoughts -- and how could it not? -- here's a story that likely hasn't... Before the global pandemic, Japan was set to confer one of its highest honors ...

The directors, two generations of Japanese filmmaking excellence, delivered a wide-ranging, humorous discussion on their approach and each other.

TOKYO (AP) — A three-hour film about the esoteric world of Kabuki is defying the odds at the Japanese box office, with tickets selling out at some cinemas. “Kokuho,” which means “national treasure,” ...

Japanese Kabuki will return to Hawaii for the first time in more than half a century to mark the 25th anniversary of the Honolulu Festival and the 150th anniversary of the first organized Japanese ...

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 ...

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, ...

On the eve of the Japan-US summit, Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akazawa Ryosei took visiting US Commerce ...

Kabuki is a form of traditional Japanese theater that began in the 17th century. Traveling theater groups of male actors, dressed in extravagant costumes and supernatural makeup, shared stories of ...

Every time I visit San Francisco, I make an effort to stop by Japantown. Founded in 1960, this three-block area commemorates the culture that the city’s Japanese residents first brought with them when ...