🍿 Kokuho, 2025 - ★★★★
This movie is a masterpiece. As a westerner that is not attuned with kabuki it’s performance elements, this movie took me into understanding, to a minimum of course, of what this art theatricality represents. That makes the performances exceptional; to take a viewer that has no clue about an art form to “feel” a little of what is this all about. This was a long movie. A life story of Kikuo. It’s very tricjy to put a life’s story on film as it can get long and boring. In Kokuho though every single element selected was meticulously crafted and selected yet very detailed but not boring. I really liked this movie.
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