Kokuho

Sang-il Lee’s lavish decades-spanning kabuki epic broke box office records, becoming Japan’s highest-grossing live-action film to date.

What toll does art exact on a life? It’s a question that runs through this large-scale portrait of Kikuo Tachibana, the son of a Yakuza boss who, following his father’s murder, trains under a kabuki actor and rises through the ranks to become the star performer of his generation.