# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 'Kokuho' at The Nightlight ?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 05:15 pm – Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Directed by Lee Sang-il and starring two of Japan’s most prominent actors, Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama, KOKUHO is a gripping tale of friendship and rivalry in the world of Kamigata kabuki. Coming soon to The Nightlight ? Tickets available now

'An unexpected smash hit at the Japanese box office, Kokuho is Lee Sang-il’s long-gestating passion project, born from a 15-year fascination with Kabuki and onnagata (men playing women on stage). When novelist Shūichi Yoshida — with whom Lee had previously collaborated on films like Villain and Rage — began serializing Kokuho, Lee recognized it as the perfect cinematic canvas to weave an irreplaceable story of heritage, cultural preservation, and identity, shaped both on and by the stage.

Kokuho opens in Nagasaki in 1964 and unfolds over five tumultuous decades. It follows Kikuo — the son of a slain yakuza boss — who, at fourteen, is taken in by a celebrated kabuki master and raised alongside Shunsuke, the master’s son and designated heir. Their bond — part brotherhood, part rivalry — drives an epic saga of ambition, sacrifice, scandal, and devotion, culminating in the emergence of a singular kokuho: a living “national treasure.”

Ryo Yoshizawa’s fully embodied turn as Kikuo (no doubles and no shortcuts — he trained for over a year) anchors the film, while Ryusei Yokohama’s Shunsuke provides the counterweight in a relationship charged with passion and tension.

Lee’s camera reveals kabuki as both exalted art and cutthroat business — built on hierarchies, family lineages, backroom politics, and patriarchy — while deftly introducing the uninitiated into its codes and practices.

Visually sumptuous and emotionally piercing, Lee’s three-hour opus is neither boring nor didactic. It’s a meditation on inheritance and choice, tradition and reinvention, and the pursuit of artistic greatness — an epic told on an intimate, human scale.'

- Giovanna Fulvi (TIFF)
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/akron/kokuho-at-the-nightlight/200029691921925
- **Event Categories**: art, entertainment, health-wellness, theatre, literary-art, meditation
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 14

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://nightlightcinema.com/movie/kokuho?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=akron-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Akron
- **state**: OH
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 30 N High St, Akron, OH, United States, Ohio 44308
- **lat**: 41.08568
- **long**: -81.51544
- **full address**: 30 N High St, Akron, OH, United States, Ohio 44308

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: The Nightlight (https://allevents.in/org/the-nightlight/215406)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 05:15 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 30 N High St, Akron, OH, United States, Ohio 44308
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Nightlight
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, entertainment, health-wellness, theatre, literary-art, meditation
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about 'Kokuho' at The Nightlight ? ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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