Kokuho

Crowned as the highest-grossing live-action film of all time in Japan, Kokuho is about ambition, loyalty, and the making of a Kabuki legend.Set in Nagasaki, 1964 – after the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor.Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre.For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – from acting school to the grandest stages – amid scandals and glory, brotherhood and betrayals…One of them will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of Kabuki.