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Pin to Kona
Japanese Drama - 2013, 10 episodes7.5
Kawamura Kyonosuke, the heir to the famous Kishima Kabuki family, has lost his passion for the art, giving lackluster performances that disappoint his father. Chiba Ayame, a high school girl who loves Kabuki, calls him…
Takizawa Kabuki ZERO 2020: The Movie
Japanese Movie - 20208.2
"Takizawa Kabuki Zero" movie adaptation with members of "Snow Man", directed by Takizawa Hideaki.
Ashura
Japanese Movie - 20056.7
Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki.…
Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
Japanese Movie - 20067.2
The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning…
Chushingura Rhapsody Daigoban
Japanese Special - 2021, 2 episodes8.6
The orphan Nakazo becomes a pupil of kabuki actor Denkuro and attracts the attention of the great star Koshiro. However, in order to help his ailing parents, he becomes an apprentice to wealthy merchant Yoshikawa and…
Sing, Dance, Act: Kabuki featuring Toma Ikuta
Japanese Movie - 20228.1
Drama, heritage, soul; Actor Toma Ikuta trains for his first kabuki theater performance with his long-time friend, kabuki actor Matsuya Onoe. (Source: Netflix)
Confetti
Japanese Movie - 20237.7
Yuki, a junior high school student, belongs to a traveling popular theater troupe and changes schools every month to match their performances. Due to attending school for a limited time, he has no expectations of meeting…
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Japanese Movie - 19397.7
Set in 1885, Kikunosuke Onoe is in line to succeed his adopted father, a talented Kabuki actor. He falls in love with his brother's nurse, Otoku, who is the only one honest about his acting skills. Defying his father,…
Floating Weeds
Japanese Movie - 19597.6
A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes…
An Actor's Revenge
Japanese Movie - 19637.4
Yukitaro, a seven-year-old orphan, is adopted by Kikunojo Nakamura, a kabuki troupe manager. As an adult, he becomes an onnagata (male actor in female roles) under the stage name Yukinojo. Years later, he seeks revenge…
Momijigari
Japanese Movie - 19037.0
Momijigari is a Japanese film shot in 1899 by Shibata Tsunekichi. It is a record of the kabuki actors Onoe Kikugoro V and Ichikawa Danjuro IX performing a scene from the kabuki play Momijigari. The film features the…
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
Japanese Movie - 19527.0
In 1185, the Heike family fights against the Minamoto family. After a bloody naval battle in the Pacific Ocean, Yoshitsune Minamoto defeats the enemy and the survivors commit suicide. When the triumphant Yoshitsune arrives…
Kokuho
Japanese Movie - 2025
Set after the war in Japan, when the country experienced rapid economic growth, Kikuo is born into a yakuza family. His strange fate leads him to be eventually taken in by a kabuki theater actor. He experiences turbulent…
Sharaku
Japanese Movie - 1995
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal…
Yukinojo Henge
Japanese Movie - 19599.0
A traditional impersonator of females in a kabuki troupe takes revenge from the three nobles who twenty years ago forced his parents to commit suicide. (Source: IMDb)
An Actor's Revenge
Japanese Movie - 1935
An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents’ deaths. (Source: Letterboxd)
Amachua Kurabu
Japanese Movie - 1920
A contemporary Comedy modeled after American slapstick and revolved around the production of a Kabuki play by the members of a bourgeois dramatics club in Kamakura.
Matsunosuke no Chushingura
Japanese Movie - 1910
The existing print has all but four of the original 42 scenes. It's really just Onoe Matsunosuke's Kabuki theater troupe performance filmed scene for scene. A static camera captures the action in one- to two-minute shots,…
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