Beauty (2007 film)

Infobox Film
name = Beauty
starring = Takataro Kataoka
Ainosuke Kataoka
Kumiko Aso
music = Reijiro Koroku
director = Toshio Goto
producer = Toshio Goto
Shunsuke Yamada
language = Japanese

"Beauty" is a 2007 drama film that explores themes of love, beauty, kabuki, and the strength of human spirit.

Plot

In a small village of Ina (伊那) district, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, 1930s.

Hanji, a young boy, saw the stage of the kabuki(歌舞伎) for the first time as a dedication event in the village.He was fascinated with the stage that Yukio, as young as Hanji,danced as "Tenryu Koishibuki".

He begins to learn the Kabuki with Yukio and Utako, a girl friend,and he became an excellent actor soon.

One day in 1944, Hanji and Yukio receive the draft cards.The tide of the war was against Japan. The village people held the final stage of the Kabuki for the two young man who might never return there again. The war was over. Japan was defeated.Hanji and Yukio survived, but they were detained in Siberia by USSR.

Few years after, only Hanji could return to the Village, and met Utako again. He saw that the village people were utterly dejected by the war. Hanji decided that he would revive the Kabuki and the Village.

The Kabuki and the village was revived as a miracle by an extraordinary effort of Hanji and Utako.

In 1980s,Hanji knew that the time of his death would come before long.The village people held the final stage of Kabuki for Hanji, and he danced "Tenryu Koishibuki" for Yukio. Japan's miracle revival from the World War Two had been supported by the diligent people who grew up in villages of the country.

Japanese traditional Kabuki, beautiful scenery of Ina district, the sorrow of war, and love. This movie describes a pure spirit of the village people of Japan.

Cast

* Takataro Kataoka as Hanji
* Ainosuke Kataoka as Yukio
* Kumiko Aso as Utako

Production

Themes

oundtrack and score

Reception

Awards

Wins

Nominations

In popular culture

References

External links

* [http://www.vill.ooshika.nagano.jp/kyoiku_iinkai/kabuki_movie.html Beauty Website:] in Japanese