BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260922T213000Z DTEND:20260923T013000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Foreign Film Screening: KOKUHO (2025\, Japanese) DESCRIPTION:The Art Museum at University of Saint Joseph and the Us & Japan Society invite you to join us for the one-time only showing of the Oscar-nominated film KOKUHO (2025). Tickets are $10 general admission ($5 students w/ID) and they can be purchased at showpass.com/kokuho.\n\n\n\nSet in the rarefied world of traditional Japanese kabuki theater\, Kokuho follows the decades-long artistic journey of a gifted young performer determined to master one of the country's most exacting stage traditions. Tracing rivalries\, mentorships\, and the intense discipline required to embody kabuki's stylized forms\, the film offers a sweeping portrait of devotion to craft.\n\nA major critical and commercial success\, Kokuho became the most successful live-action film of all time in Japan and was selected as the nation's official submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature\, further cementing its status as a landmark contemporary Japanese epic.\n\n"Bursting with emotion and beauty\; its costumes\, hair and makeup are dazzling. Sang-il Lee's film tells a compelling story about friendship\, the weight of history\, the quest for perfection\, and the torturous road to becoming a living national treasure." NPR\n\nDirected by Sang-il Lee (Japan\, 2025\, 175 min.). Japanese with English subtitles.\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n 5:30 p.m. - Light reception with special preview of Art Museum exhibition\, Dramatic Prints of Japan\n 6:00 p.m. - Introduction to Kabuki by Matthew Matthew Chudnow\, PhD.\, Assistant Professor of Japanese\, CCSU\n 6:30 p.m. - Film screening X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Art Museum at University of Saint Joseph and the Us &\; Japan Society invite you to join us for the one-time only showing of the Oscar-nominated film KOKUHO (2025). Tickets are $10 general admission ($5 students w/ID) and they can be purchased at showpass.com/kokuho.
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\nSet in the rarefied world of traditional Japanese kabuki theater\, Kokuho follows the decades-long artistic journey of a gifted young performer determined to master one of the country&rsquo\;s most exacting stage traditions. Tracing rivalries\, mentorships\, and the intense discipline required to embody kabuki&rsquo\;s stylized forms\, the film offers a sweeping portrait of devotion to craft.

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A major critical and commercial success\, Kokuho became the most successful live-action film of all time in Japan and was selected as the nation&rsquo\;s official submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature\, further cementing its status as a landmark contemporary Japanese epic.

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&ldquo\;Bursting with emotion and beauty\; its costumes\, hair and makeup are dazzling. Sang-il Lee&rsquo\;s film tells a compelling story about friendship\, the weight of history\, the quest for perfection\, and the torturous road to becoming a living national treasure.&rdquo\; &mdash\;NPR

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Directed by Sang-il Lee (Japan\, 2025\, 175 min.). Japanese with English subtitles.
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\n\n\n LOCATION:Hoffman Auditorium Bruyette Athenaeum\, University of Saint Joseph 1678 Asylum Ave. West Hartford\, CT 06117 UID:e.3150.17407 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260906T055852Z URL:https://business.whchamber.com/events/details/foreign-film-screening-kokuho-2025-japanese-17407 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR