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Tokyo’s National Theatre Reopens — But Not for a Kabuki Performance

Last year, Lee Sang-il’s Kokuho did something no Japanese film had managed in over two decades: it became the country’s highest-grossing live-action local release, pulling in more than $120 million and landing as Japan’s entry for this year’s Academy Awards. At its center are two rivals who give their entire lives to onnagata, the kabuki […] The post Tokyo’s National Theatre Reopens — But Not for…

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