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Tue 26 Nov 2019 22.56 EST The Star Wars franchise is about to breach the artistic final frontier with a one-off performance of a kabuki adaptation starring one of Japan's most revered stage.


Star Wars Disney Japan Streams The Skywalker Saga as a Kabuki Show

The "Star Wars" kabuki play was a one-night only performance, but the producers have generously made the entire thing, which runs about 30 minutes, available for viewing on YouTube. However, there are no English subtitles, so we've got the play-by-play, as well as our impressions, below.


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In the kabuki performance, titled Star Wars Kabuki-Rennosuke and the Three Light Sabers, Japan's pre-eminent kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo XI plays Kylo, according to The Guardian .


ā€œStar Wars Kabukiā€ Makes Itā€™s Stage Debut ARAMA! JAPAN

Kabuki is a historic form of Japanese theater, and it is traditionally filled with distinguished dancing and elaborate costumes and masks. Like so many other elements of the Star Wars universe, Kylo Ren's mask design was influenced by kabuki. The stage show will be a treat for Star Wars fans eagerly awaiting the release of The Rise of Skywalker on December 20th.


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Kabuki actors will swap their samurai swords for lightsabers to perform the adaptation of the wildly popular series later this month, ahead the release of the final film in the main Star Wars saga.


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"Star Wars Kabuki: Rennosuke Kojin Sanbon" featured characters from the "Star Wars" series, whose names and lines were rendered in kabuki style for the performance. Against a backdrop of images symbolic to the series, kabuki star Ichikawa Ebizo XI played the lead role, joined by his son, Kangen Horikoshi. Ebizo was also the show's supervisor.


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Kabuki actors will swap their samurai swords for lightsabers to perform the adaptation of the wildly popular series later this month, ahead the release of the final film in the main Star Wars saga.


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371 14K views 3 years ago ć‚ćć‚ćƒ‘ćƒ¼ć‚·ćƒ¢ćƒ³ćƒ›ćƒ¼ćƒ« This traditional kabuki play takes place in a galaxy far, far away as the Meguro Persimmon Hall performs a show based on "Star Wars." The play featured.


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Kabuki ā€” which utilizes singing, dancing, elaborate costuming, and makeup ā€” dates back to the 1600s. Interestingly, George Lucas was heavily inspired by Japanese culture when writing the first Star Wars film back in the 1970s.


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TOKYO - From a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars is coming to a traditional Japanese kabuki theatre stage for a one-off performance in Tokyo celebrating the blockbuster cinema series.


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Casey Baseel Nov 29, 2019 Tweet Japan's biggest kabuki star becomes Kylo Ren, and here's how you can watch the performance yourself. A long, long time ago (last Thursday night) in a galaxy far, far away (the Meguro Persimmon Hall in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward), the Star Wars saga manifested itself in perhaps its most unexpected form ever.


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According to SoraNews24, Star Wars Kabuki will star Ichikawa Ebizo, one of the most famous and popular kabuki performers in all of Japan, and an "A-list Japanese entertainment industry.


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"'Star Wars Kabuki' will depict the love and loss felt by the Skywalker family over the past 40-plus years," promises Ichikawa, who has himself become a symbol of single fatherhood in Japan as he raises two children (including an aspiring kabuki actor son) following the loss of his wife, newscaster Mao Kobayashi, to breast cancer at the age of 34.


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Dubbed Star Wars Kabuki-Kairennosuke and the Three Shining Swords, the play was blessed by Buddhist monks and took place in Tokyo on the evening of November 28. It was divided into three acts,.