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The film follows Sergeant Detective Harry Griswold, a clumsy N.Y.P.D. cop investigating a string of murders involving kabuki actors. While attending an amateur kabuki play, Harry witnesses thugs gun down the entire cast. In the ensuing gunfight, Harry is forcibly kissed by one of the dying actors, unknowingly becoming blessed with the powers of ...
Kataoka Ainosuke VI (Japanese: 六代目 片岡 愛之助, Hepburn: Rokudaime Kataoka Ainosuke, born March 4, 1972) is a Japanese actor, kabuki actor and TV host. [4] [1] [2] His yagō is matsushimaya. [4] His mon is the Oikake Go-mai Ichō. His current stage name is Ainosuke Kataoka.
The ukiyo-e art of the Kamigata area, for a long time consisted primarily of woodblock printed illustrated books (such as Amayo no Sanbai Kigen) and paintings.Single-sheet prints depicting kabuki actors, landscapes, or beautiful women (), popular in Edo beginning around 1700 did not become common in Kamigata until roughly one hundred years later.
The tradition of kabuki in Nagoya goes back to the Edo period. With the opening of Japan to the West in the Meiji era, the Japanese wooden structure was replaced with a permanent building that was constructed out of brick and mortar in the Western Renaissance style in 1895. This structure was enlargened by the 1920s with a pillared porch added ...
He is a third-generation Kabuki actor and comes from a renowned Kabuki acting family: his father, Onoe Kikugorō VII (七代目 尾上菊五郎) is one of the greatest Kabuki actors of the Showa and Heisei eras and is known for his versatility with both male and female roles and his grandfather, Onoe Baikō VII (七代目 尾上梅幸) was known for being one of the greatest onnagata actors of ...
Akihisa Mera (米良 明久, Mera Akihisa, born September 8, 1948), better known as The Great Kabuki (ザ・グレート・カブキ, Za Gurēto Kabuki), is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He is famous as the first to blow Asian mist in his opponents' faces.
Utagawa Toyokuni; The Kabuki actor Onoe Eisaburo I; c. 1800. Yakusha-e (役者絵), often referred to as "actor prints" in English, are Japanese woodblock prints or, rarely, paintings, of kabuki actors, particularly those done in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and
Ennosuke also created a more contemporary version of kabuki called the "Super Kabuki" style in 1986. [3] [4] In November 2003, Ennosuke suffered from symptoms of a stroke, and did not perform for most of the following year. He stopped performing in 2004 and retired under the name of Ichikawa En'no II in 2012.