Child Kabuki actors go through a difficult transitional period when their voices change with puberty but they aren’t yet mature enough to take adult roles. Only the truly determined ones pull ...

Prosecutors had sought a three-year prison term. Ennosuke was accused of helping his father, Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danshiro, 76, and his mother, 75, commit suicide at his home in Tokyo in May.

Kataoka Ainosuke takes his first turn as our host. Ainosuke is a renowned kabuki actor. He'll be our guide to the attractions of kabuki looking at some of the roles he's played. He'll be our guide ...

Disney has just released a new line of merch in Japan in collaboration with Shochiku, one of the country’s oldest movie ...

45 x 30 cm. (17.7 x 11.8 in.) ...

It’s where Minamiza stands today, so the theater holds a very special place for kabuki actors.” Thus muses 25-year-old kabuki star Nakamura Takanosuke on the history of his art as he gazes ...

This is a photograph of the popular Meiji period Kabuki actor Ichimura Uzaemon XV taken at the Kabukiza in 1930 in Tokyo. He is dressed as Togashi, the aristocrat in charge of the road barrier in ...

Explore the fascinating conventions and traditions of kabuki. Actor Kataoka Ainosuke explains the origins and meanings of kabuki's unique make-up, its onnagata techniques and stage machinery.