Ken Watanabe didn’t think a kabuki movie would work

A three-hour-long play play astir kabuki, a centuries-old signifier of Japanese theater, doesn't precisely dependable similar container bureau gold. But that's precisely what happened with Kokuho. Director Lee Sang-il's adaptation of the Shuichi Yoshida caller of the aforesaid sanction was a astonishment deed past year, becoming Japan's top-grossing live-action movie domestically. But prima Ken Watanabe - a seasoned histrion known for Hollywood movies similar Inception and Detective Pikachu - initially didn't deliberation it was a bully idea. He loved the novel, but disquieted that the creation signifier wouldn't construe good to film.

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