Watch the trailer for Kokuho – coming to cinemas this week!

Spectacularly bringing the intricate style and all-consuming dedication of the Japanese Kabuki artist to the big screen, Lee Sang-il’s epic new drama KOKUHŌ is a decades-spanning tale charting the ambition, friendship and rivalry of two young trainees. Nagasaki, 1964. After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, gifted Kikuo (rising star Ryō Yoshizawa) is taken under the wing of famed Kabuki actor Hanjirō Hanai (played by the iconic Ken Watanabe, Memoirs of a Geisha, ...