KOKUHO will screen in IMAX theatres in North America for one night only on January 21. You may not have heard of KOKUHO before, but it is Japan’s highest-grossing live-action film of all time.
KOKUHO was directed by Lee Sang-Il, and it is set in Nagasaki in 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, Kikuo decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. Across decades, the two young men grow and evolve together from acting school to the grandest stages, amid scandals and glory, brotherhood and betrayals, as each pushes to become the greatest living Kabuki master.
