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Movies: Best "kabuki" Movies

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Sayonara(1957)

2h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 54 votes)

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

Directed by Joshua Logan - With Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, Red Buttons, Ricardo Montalbán, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, ...

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum(1939)

2h 24min | Romance / Love, Drama
4.0/5 (with 47 votes)

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

An Actor's Revenge(1963)

1h 53min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Nakamura Ganjirō II, Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Shintarō Katsu, ...

Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.(1991)

1h 45min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
2.8/5 (with 30 votes)

Harry Griswald is a NYPD cop who is possessed with the spirit of a great Kabuki master. This has made him 'the chosen one' to do battle with 'the evil one'. He is also out to do good deeds and fight crime in the name of the law. The only problem is that a number of corrupt people in the community and their henchmen want him dead so that they can gain power when 'the evil one' come to take over the world. Sgt. Kabukiman must use his special superpowers to outsmart and out-fight the bad guys.

Directed by Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz - With Phoebe Legere

A Story of Floating Weeds(1934)

1h 26min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 20 votes)

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Chishū Ryū, Takeshi Sakamoto, Chōko Iida, Kōji Mitsui

An Actor's Revenge(1935)

1h 37min | Drama, History
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Travelling Actors(1940)

1h 10min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Directed by Mikio Naruse

Two Portraits of MIYAGINO(2010)

1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love, History, Mystery, Crime

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

Maple Leaf Viewing(1899)

2min | Drama, Horror
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

[…] A reel was shot of the Noh drama Momiji-gari (Maple Leaf Hunters, or Viewing Scarlet Maple Leaves), in which Danjuro played opposite Onoe Kikugoro V (1844-1903) as an ogress who has disguised herself as the Princess Sarashina. Filmed by Shibata Tsunekichi in the open air on a windy day in November 1899, Danjuro would allow only the one take, so that when his fan blew away in mid-performance the scene had to stay. The film re-emerged at the Kikikan theatre in 1907 where it was a great success and inspired a wave of fiction filmmaking based on traditional Japanese narratives. (cont. http://victorian-cinema.net/danjuro)

Directed by Tsunekichi Shibata - With Onoe Kikugorō V, Ichikawa Danjūrō IX

The Lion Dance(1936)

24min | Music, Documentary
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

The lion dance in traditional Japanese theatre.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Yotsuya Kaidan(1915)

Horror, Drama

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Yotsuya Kaidan(1928)

Drama, Horror

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Iemon(1928)

Drama, Horror

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Yotsuya Kaidan(1927)

Drama, Horror

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Yotsuya Kaidan Oiwâ(1923)

Horror, Drama

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Yotsuya Kaidan(1923)

Horror, Drama

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Yotsuya Kaidan(1921)

Horror, Drama

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Shin Yotsuya Kaidan(1914)

Horror, Drama

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Yotsuya Kaidan(1911)

Horror, Drama

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