Product Description
Kokuho became the highest grossing Japanese live action film of all time. This is the regular blu-ray edition with English subtitles.
The man who would one day become a national treasure was born into a yakuza family. Kikuo, blessed with an otherworldly beautiful face, loses his father in a gang conflict and is taken in by Hanai Hanjiro, the head of a prestigious Kamigata kabuki family, where he enters the world of kabuki. There he meets Shunsuke, Hanjiro's biological son and heir, whose future has been guaranteed since birth. Though they inherit completely different bloodlines and differ in upbringing and talent, the two become rivals, pushing each other to greater heights while dedicating their youth to the art. However, countless encounters and farewells gradually throw the gears of fate into disarray... A forbidden world of kabuki unlike anything ever seen before. Bloodline and talent, joy and despair, trust and betrayal. Beyond a life of struggle and hardship lie overwhelming emotion and exhilaration.
