Cinema Kabuki: Fire Brigade Brawl

Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kabuki world, and worries about his future as an actor.

Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, Hanji learns kabuki with Utako. As they grow, they become skilled actors, performing in a final kabuki before World War II. After the war, Hanji returns to revive kabuki and restore the community’s spirit. In the 1980s, as he nears death, the villagers organise a final performance in his honour, where he performs “Tenryu Koishibuki” for Yukio.

A day in a Hyatt suite gone weird

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

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver 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, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

Yotsuya Kaidan

Oiwa Nagaya

Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story

Yotsuya Ghost Stories

Irohagana Yotsuya Kaidan

Follows the life of an illegitimate son of a kabuki actor.

A streetwise New York police officer transforms into the world's most unusual superhuman hero.

Created for the "Esso World Theater" series of films in 1964, it features excerpts from "Bugaku," "Gagaku," "Noh, " and "Kabuki" scenes performed by the well-known dancers, musicians and actors and actresses.

Yotsuya Kaidan

Yotsuya Kaidan

Yotsuya Kaidan

Yotsuya Kaidan Oiwâ

Shin Yotsuya Kaidan

Irohagana Yotsuya Kaidan

Earliest japanese horror film.