Mizuhara Koichi

Nakamura Ganjiro II

Nakamura Ganjiro II was a Japanese film and Kabuki actor born in Osaka. He's mostly known in the west for his role in "Conflagration" (1958), "The End of Summer" (1961) and "Floating Weeds" (1959). The current holder, the fourth generation of "Nakamura Ganjiro" name, is his grandson.

Seto Koji

Seto Koji is a Japanese actor and singer. He's a member of the acting troupe D-BOYS. His childhood dream of becoming a vet changed suddenly with the end of his Junior High School time when he watched the TV series Orange Days. The praised drama and performance by Tsumabuki Satoshi inspired his wish…

Arashi Sanemon XI

Arashi Sanemon XI was a kabuki actor from the Kansai region Born as Minoru Ookawa, he was also recognized by the title of the eleventh generation Arashi Sanemon. He made his debut in 1912 at the Osaka Naniwa Theater. As Kansai kabuki faced a downturn, he shifted to the Takarazuka Shinkigeki theater…

Sawamura Sonosuke II

Sawamura Sonosuke II was a Kabuki actor born in Asakusa Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture. His younger brothers are the actors Ito Yunosuke and Sawamura Shonosuke I. He debuted at the Imperial Theater in 1922. Two years later in 1924, he succeeded to the name of the second-generation Sawamura Sonosuke.…

Hama Yuko

Hama Yuko is a Japanese actress born at Meguro in Tokyo. She was married to Ichikawa Ennosuke III, a kabuki actor, and gave birth to Kagawa Teruyuki, who also became an actor, before divorcing three years later in 1968. She started working in the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theater…

Ichikawa Raizo VIII

The star of Daiei Studio, Ichikawa Raizo got his start as a kabuki actor. Born Kamezaki Akio, he was adopted at six months old by kabuki actor, Ichikawa Kudanji. He was then given the name Takeuchi Yoshio. He debuted as a kabuki actor officially at the age of 17 (1948) in the play "Nakayama Shichiri".…

Wakayama Tomisaburo

Wakayama Tomisaburo was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His father was Tohiji Katsu (or Katsutoji Kineya), a noted kabuki performer and nagauta singer, and the family as a whole were kabuki performers. He and his younger brother, Shintaro Katsu, followed their father in the theater.…

Onoe Matsuya II

Inoue Ryuuichi, born January 30, 1985, is a Japanese Kabuki, stage and film actor who holds the title of Onoe Matsuya II. Inoue has been active as a child actor since the age of 10. He is mostly known for portraying Imagawa Ujizane in 2017 NHK Taiga drama Onna Joshu Naotora and as Sena Yosuke in Hanzawa…

Yoshioka Riho

Yoshioka Riho, born January 15, 1993, is a Japanese actress and model. Born in Uzumasa, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City where the famous Toei Kyoto Studio Park is located and influenced by the family that runs video-related business, Yoshioka grew up being familiar with various forms of arts and culture - film,…

Amachua Kurabu

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.

Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami

A movie made of one of the three most famous and popular plays in the kabuki repertoire. The play is set in the 9th century, and is based on the life of Heian period court noble and government official Sugawara no…

Stolen Desire

6.9

A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows

Godaime Onoe Kikugoro: Sou Gio ~ Yake

2.0

Actuality of the funeral of Kikugoro V, (Onoe Kikugorō V) Kabuki-za, 15 April.

Matsunosuke no Chushingura

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…

Yaoh: King of the Night Special

6.9

"Ryosuke Matoba is a passionate guy who works at the prestigious nightclub for women, “Romeo,” in Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku. His only goal is to become the #1 “host” there. In reality though, most of the time he…

Ooshikamura Soudouki

6.6

In this rural mountain village, they have the tradition of acting an amateur Kabuki performance. All troubles come out as the villagers try to make success with the performance. Tears, laughter, and rage all unfold…

Chikaemon

6.8

Monzaemon Chikamatsu is a middle-age dramatist of jōruri (form of puppet theater that preceded bunraku and kabuki), but he is in a slump. His wife left him and his mother is fed up with him. All he does now is drink.…

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

7.4

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,…

The Takatsu River

7.5

Manabu runs a ranch in Shimane and is concerned about his son Tatsuya, who is skipping practice for the local dance 'KAGURA,' a tradition linked to kabuki. This dance, a source of pride in their community, marks the…