Kokuho

Nagasaki, 1964. After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is entrusted to a famous kabuki actor. Together with Shunsuke, his only son, he dedicates himself to traditional theater. For years, the young men evolve side by side, from theater school to the most beautiful theaters, between scandals and fame, brotherhood and betrayal. One of them will grow up to be the greatest Japanese master in the art of kabuki. Against the background of the rapidly modernizing postwar Japan, a grand, sweeping epic unfolds about tradition, ambition, and artistic dedication. An overwhelming audience favorite in Japan that couples the grandeur of classic melodrama to breathtaking stagings of kabuki theater.