Beauty

Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, Hanji learns kabuki with Utako. As they grow, they become skilled actors, performing in a final kabuki before World War II. After the war, Hanji returns to revive kabuki and restore the community’s spirit. In the 1980s, as he nears death, the villagers organise a final performance in his honour, where he performs “Tenryu Koishibuki” for Yukio.

• Toshio GotoDirector
• Reijirō KorokuOriginal Music Composer
• Ryūnosuke OnoWriter

• Takatarô KataokaOgura Hanji
• Ainosuke KataokaYukio Katsuragi
• Kumiko AsoUtako Higashiura
• Noritoshi KashimaMasao Kinoshita
• Hidekazu MashimaCast
• Asae OonishiCast
• Hisashi IgawaCast
• Satoshi NikaidoCast
• Makoto AkatsukaCast
• Kazuyoshi KushidaCast
• Kazuo KitamuraCast
• Takao KataokaCast