Producer Chieko Murata and production designer Yohei Taneda discuss the making of Lee Sang-il’s nearly three-hour-long epic, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Tokyo Taxi director Yamada Yoji told audiences at the Tokyo International Film Festival that he admires how the Korean ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The ANU Kabuki Club at the Australian National University is recognised as the longest-running student kabuki troupe in the ...

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 ...