{"id":2042678,"date":"2025-09-23T02:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2042678"},"modified":"2025-09-23T02:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:44:04","slug":"kokuho-review-a-hit-in-its-home-country-three-hour-japanese-epic-illuminates-the-highs-and-lows-of-kabuki-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kokuho-review-a-hit-in-its-home-country-three-hour-japanese-epic-illuminates-the-highs-and-lows-of-kabuki-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kokuho\u2019 Review: A Hit in Its Home Country, Three-Hour Japanese Epic Illuminates the Highs and Lows of Kabuki Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A vivid portrait of a legendary kabuki actor over the course of his career, \u201cKokuho<\/a>\u201d joins a rich tradition of films that depict the personal cost of making art. Too often, such stories present an overly simplified version of the given artform\u2019s rigors and qualities, diluting any undergirding sense of what drives the characters to put themselves through the ringer. By contrast, Japanese director Lee Sang-il<\/a>\u2019s surprise hit \u201cKokuho<\/a>\u201d spends a great deal of its lengthy runtime capturing the beautiful physicality and anguished storylines around which the performances revolve, mirroring the many struggles and complicated triumphs of its central protagonist\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n

The title \u201cKokuho<\/a>\u201d translates to \u201cnational treasure,\u201d a title bestowed by the Japanese government upon high masters of an art or craft. Its director, Lee, is best known for his films \u201cHula Girls\u201d (2006) and \u201cUnforgiven<\/a>,\u201d a 2013 remake of the Clint Eastwood<\/a> movie, starring Ken Watanabe<\/a>. \u201cKokuho<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A vivid portrait of a legendary kabuki actor over the course of his career, \u201cKokuho\u201d joins a rich tradition of films that depict the personal cost of making art. Too often, such stories present an overly simplified version of the given artform\u2019s rigors and qualities, diluting any undergirding sense of what drives the characters to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2042679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2042678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Kokuho-Review-A-Hit-in-Its-Home-Country-Three-Hour-Japanese.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2042679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}