FILE - Ichikawa Ennnosuke, director and actor of Japanese Kabuki traditional theater, is awarded the Paris city vermeil medal by a city hall official at the Chatelet Theater following a performance, ...

TOKYO(AP) — Handing down a name over generations is a central part of the Japanese traditional theater art of Kabuki, and that ceremony gets celebrated at theaters and special events every few years.

Director Sang-il Lee sets his epic-scaled "Kokuho" in the vivid world of kabuki theater, but it’s not just the movie’s milieu that distinguishes it. Spanning 50 years and running nearly three hours, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kabuki actors, Kikunosuke Onoe, left, and the eighth Kikugoro Onoe, right, attend a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents ...

Kabuki actors, Kikunosuke Onoe, left, and the eighth Kikugoro Onoe, right, attend a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents's Club of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, on March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuri ...

TOKYO (AP) — Handing down a name over generations is a central part of the Japanese traditional theater art of Kabuki, and that ceremony gets celebrated at theaters and special events every few years.

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