{"id":2123547,"date":"2025-10-29T22:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123547"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:03:27","slug":"kokuho-review-japans-oscar-submission-is-a-stunning-tale-of-art-ambition-and-bloodlines-set-in-the-world-of-kabuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kokuho-review-japans-oscar-submission-is-a-stunning-tale-of-art-ambition-and-bloodlines-set-in-the-world-of-kabuki\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kokuho\u2019 Review: Japan\u2019s Oscar Submission Is a Stunning Tale of Art, Ambition and Bloodlines Set in the World of Kabuki"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kokuho<\/a>, which takes its title and its novelistic sweep from a recent work of fiction about the rarefied world of kabuki, begins in the mid-1960s and ends 50 years later. Steeped in modern Japanese history without explicating it, director Sang-il Lee<\/a>\u2019s feature is propelled by operatic intensity and visual poetry. It unfolds over three mostly riveting hours, with only occasional jagged lapses in narrative momentum. Through its twinned stories of aspiring actors \u2014 one born into the kabuki tradition, one an outsider determined to climb its ranks \u2014 the movie blends backstage melodrama, succession saga and making-of-an-artist dynamics. At the center of its superb cast, Ryo Yoshizawa<\/a> and Ryusei Yokohama<\/a> deliver exquisitely layered performances that interweave offstage characterization and onstage theatricality.<\/p>\n

After the crime drama Villain<\/a> (2010) and murder mystery Rage<\/a> (2016), Kokuho is Lee\u2019s third adaptation of a novel by Shuichi Yoshida<\/a>. Japan<\/a>\u2019s official submission to the Oscars\u2019 international feature category,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

Kokuho, which takes its title and its novelistic sweep from a recent work of fiction about the rarefied world of kabuki, begins in the mid-1960s and ends 50 years later. Steeped in modern Japanese history without explicating it, director Sang-il Lee\u2019s feature is propelled by operatic intensity and visual poetry. It unfolds over three mostly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123548,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2123547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/10\/\u2018Kokuho-Review-Japans-Oscar-Submission-Is-a-Stunning-Tale-of.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123547","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=2123547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123549,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123547\/revisions\/2123549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}