
KOKUHO
Director: Sang-Il Lee
Feature film | Japan | 2025
175 min | Dolby 5.1
59th Hof International Film Festival
2025
Nagasaki, 1964 – After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo, is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theater. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – from acting school to the grandest stages – amid scandals and glory, brotherhood and betrayals… One of them will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of Kabuki.
With Ken Watanabe, Ryô Yoshizawa, Ryûsei Yokohama
Screenplay Satoko Okudera, Shûichi Yoshida, Cinematography Sofian El Fani, Editing Yûki Izumi, Production design Nao Shimoyama, Casting Masunobu Boo Motokawa, Music Marihiko Hara, Production Chieko Murata, Shinzo Matsuhashi





