{"id":2313993,"date":"2026-03-05T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2313993"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:20:22","slug":"oscars-how-the-hair-and-makeup-team-behind-kokuho-brought-kabuki-theaters-400-year-old-aesthetics-to-movie-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/oscars-how-the-hair-and-makeup-team-behind-kokuho-brought-kabuki-theaters-400-year-old-aesthetics-to-movie-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars: How the Hair and Makeup Team Behind \u2018Kokuho\u2019 Brought Kabuki Theater\u2019s 400-Year-Old Aesthetics to Movie Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm18145741\/\">Naomi Hibino<\/a> says her initial response was to \u201cgo numb\u201d upon learning that she and her fellow hair and makeup artists had been nominated for an Oscar for their work on Kokuho, Japan\u2019s breakthrough period drama.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm15330962\/\">Hibino<\/a> had spent the past 30 years working in the quiet, cloistered world of traditional Japanese dance, studying and practicing as a kaoshi, or traditional Japanese stage makeup artist. Kokuho was her very first film, and the prospect of attending the Academy Awards astonished and baffled her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a while, though, as I recognized that our work really had been nominated, I still felt that it was not really for me,\u201d Hibino says. \u201cThis recognition was for a traditional performing art form that has continued for several hundred years in my country \u2014 it was recognition for the countless people who have inherited and nurtured our art, including my sensei, who taught me everything to get here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Hibino says her initial response was to \u201cgo numb\u201d upon learning that she and her fellow hair and makeup artists had been nominated for an Oscar for their work on Kokuho, Japan\u2019s breakthrough period drama. Hibino had spent the past 30 years working in the quiet, cloistered world of traditional Japanese dance, studying and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2313994,"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-2313993","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\/2026\/03\/Oscars-How-the-Hair-and-Makeup-Team-Behind-\u2018Kokuho-Brought.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313993","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=2313993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313995,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313993\/revisions\/2313995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}