TOKYO (AP) — Onstage, Danjuro Ichikawa, one of the biggest stars of Japan's Kabuki theater, is a virtuoso in switching roles. In his latest production, he plays 13 parts, including a princess, a sushi ...

Lee Sang-il’s kabuki drama Kokuho has set a new record in Japan, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film ever in the market with over $111M at the local box office. The Ken ...

TOKYO >> Eno Ichikawa, who revived the spectacular in Japanese Kabuki theater to woo younger and global audiences, has died. He was 83. Ichikawa died after suffering heart problems on Wednesday in ...

What is Kabuki drama? Kabuki is a popular Japanese theater form which experts date back to 17th century Kyoto, at the beginning of the Edo period. The drama employs vivid, elaborate costumes and ...

TOKYO — A three-hour film about the esoteric world of Kabuki is defying the odds at the Japanese box office, with tickets selling out at some cinemas. “Kokuho,” which means “national treasure,” has ...

In the central Japanese mountain village of Damine, children have kept up an unbroken tradition of performing Japan's classical theater, kabuki, year after year for more than three centuries. But as ...

I suspect that no restaurant has done more to introduce sushi to Southern California than the Kabuki Japanese chain. The first branch opened in 1991, and in the quarter-century since, Kabuki has done ...

Disney Japan/YouTube A Star Wars kabuki show is what we call synergy. George Lucas, the father of the Star Wars universe, partly drew from Japanese cinematic influences for his saga, including the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Eno Ichikawa, who revived the spectacular in Japanese Kabuki theater to woo younger and global audiences, has died. He was 83. As we navigate through unprecedented times, our journalists ...

Damine Elementary School, with four desks in a combined first- and second-grade classroom, stays open primarily to teach children kabuki and keep the village tradition alive. In the central Japanese ...