Product Description
Kokuho became the highest grossing Japanese live action film of all time. This Deluxe Edition features an outstanding collection of premium bonuses, including the director-supervised 'Extended Kabuki Scene Special Version,' 'Deleted Scenes' and 'Making-of' footage, along with a special booklet and a deluxe outer case. It comes wrapped in a specially made furoshiki (wrapping cloth) printed with the backdrop image of the kabuki stage featured in the film.
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.
Main Feature Disc (Blu-ray): Feature film (same content as the Regular Edition) / Bonus DISC (Blu-ray): (1) Extended Kabuki Scene Special Version ("Renjishi" / "Sagin Musume" - Mangiku / "Ninin Fujimusume" / "Ninin Dojoji" / "Sonezaki Shinju" / "Sagin Musume" - Kikuo) (2) Deleted Scenes (3) Making-of (4) Stage Greeting Digest (5) Commentary Digest by Nakamura Ganjiro, Nakamura Kazutaro, and director Lee Sang-il (6) Trailer / Specifications [Blu-ray] Subtitles: Japanese closed captions, English subtitles (feature film only) / Audio: Japanese audio description (feature film only), audio commentary by Nakamura Ganjiro, Nakamura Kazutaro, and director Lee Sang-il. This edition is the same as the other Blu-ray deluxe edition but without the 4K Ultra HD Disc.
