{
  "id": 5511641,
  "title": "Miike Takashi Shines an Intimate Spotlight on a Kabuki Legend in Debut Documentary ‘Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/miike-takashi-shines-an-intimate-spotlight-on-a-kabuki-legend-in",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-04T06:59:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/miike-takashi-kabuki-documentary-shumei-1236850841/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The most remarkable thing about Miike Takashi — whose filmography spans well over a hundred features in a smorgasbord of different genres and styles — is that he has never made a documentary. But now he’s at Venice with doc “Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki.” The films screen out of competition. “I take on […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}