{"id":212283,"date":"2025-10-09T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212283\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:49:11","slug":"first-trailer-for-japan-box-office-hit-gkids-oscar-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212283\/","title":{"rendered":"First Trailer For Japan Box Office Hit & GKids Oscar Hopeful"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s your first trailer for Japan\u2019s Oscar entry<\/a>\u00a0Kokuho<\/a>, the coming-of-age Kobuki drama that stars Ryo Yoshizawa,\u00a0Ken Watanabe and Ryusei Yokohama.<\/p>\n

\n\tKokuho\u00a0is the second highest-grossing local live-action movie of all time in\u00a0Japan<\/a>, where it has taken more than $104M since its June premiere. It\u2019s also the 15th highest-grossing movie ever at the Japanese box office. Yoshizawa trained 18 months in the art and history of Kabuki theater to play an actor pursuing greatness at all costs.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Cannes Directors\u2019 Fortnight title will hit U.S. theaters via GKids<\/a> for an award-qualifying run beginning November 14 in Los Angeles and November 21 in New York.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic directed by Sang-il Lee (Pachinko) got its North American bow last month at TIFF. Its U.S. runs will take place first for a week at AMC Universal CityWalk and then a week at the Angelika Film Center in New York. It will also screen at AFI Fest in Los Angeles on October 24.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe logline reads: \u201cNagasaki, 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\u2019s only son,\u00a0Kikuo\u00a0(Yoshizawa) decides to\u00a0dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. Across decades, the two young men grow and evolve together \u2013 from acting school to the grandest stages \u2013 amid scandals and\u00a0glory, brotherhood and betrayals, as each pushes to become the greatest living Kabuki master.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie marks the first live-action contemporary film release from well known animated film distributor Gkids, which was\u00a0acquired by Japanese media giant Toho<\/a>\u00a0almost a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s your first trailer for Japan\u2019s Oscar entry\u00a0Kokuho, the coming-of-age Kobuki drama that stars Ryo Yoshizawa,\u00a0Ken Watanabe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,120909,104844,206],"class_list":["post-212283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-gkids","tag-kokuho","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}