Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 174 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his Yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wings of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of Kabuki.
- based on novel or book
- rivalry
- cross dressing
- period drama
- gender roles
- lgbt
- kabuki
- 1960s
- theater performance
- grand
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ryo Yoshizawa
Kikuo Tachibana
Ryusei Yokohama
Shunsuke Ogaki
Mitsuki Takahata
Harue Fukuda
Shinobu Terajima
Sachiko Ogaki
- Soya Kurokawa — Kikuo (young)
- Keitatsu Koshiyama — Shunsuke (young)
- Min Tanaka — Mangiku Onogawa
- Ken Watanabe — Hanjiro Hanai
- Nana Mori — Akiko
- Takahiro Miura — Takeno
- Ai Mikami — Fujikoma
- Masatoshi Nagase — Gongoro Tachibana
- Kyusaku Shimada — Umeki
- Emma Miyazawa — Matsu Tachibana
- Kumi Takiuchi — Ayano (adult)
- Directed
- Sang-il Lee
- Written
- Satoko Okudera
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 94 ratings
- Studio
- TOHO, Aniplex, Myriagon Studio, CREDEUS, AMUSE, Lawson
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
