SEPTEMBER 2025

3 shows in Tôkyô (Kabukiza, New National Theatre) & 1 in Kyôto (Minamiza)!

  • Living National Treasure Kataoka Nizaemon & ??? perform at the Kabukiza !
  • Living National Treasure Nakamura Baigyoku & Nakamura Senjaku perform at the New National Theatre
  • Kataoka Ainosuke, Ichikawa Chûsha, Onoe Ukon, Ichikawa Emiya & Ichikawa Emisaburô perform at the Minamiza!
  • Kabukiza (Tôkyô)
    Dates ?? ~ ?? September 2025
    Shûzan Matsuri Kugatsu Ôkabuki
    Shûzan's Festival September Grand Kabuki
    Matinée

    Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami

  • Kamo Zutsumi
  • Hippô Denju
  • Dômyôji
  • Evening

    Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami

  • Kurumabiki
  • Ga no Iwai
  • Terakoya
  • Casting

    Living National Treasure Kataoka Nizaemon, ???

    Comments

    The 4th edition at the Kabukiza of the new "Shûzan Matsuri" (the festival of Shûzan), which is staged to commemorate late Nakamura Kichiemon II. Shûzan was the haimyô used by both Nakamura Kichiemon I and Nakamura Kichiemon II.

    New National Theatre (Tôkyô)
    Dates 5? ~ 27 September 2025
    Program

    Kanadehon Chûshingura

  • Rikiya Jôshi, Matsukiri
  • Yamashina Kankyo
  • Casting

    Living National Treasure Nakamura Baigyoku, Nakamura Senjaku, Ichikawa Monnosuke, Nakamura Toranosuke, Nakamura Tamatarô, Nakamura Jûjirô

    Comments

    No performance at the National Theatre, which is no more operating in 2025 but there is a subsitute theater: the New National Theatre! This playhouse dedicated to opera, ballet or modern dances/dramas has become also a new home for Kabuki performances!

    Minamiza (Kyôto)
    Dates 2 ~ 26 September 2025
    Program

    Rupan Sansei [In Japanese]

    Casting

    Kataoka Ainosuke, Ichikawa Chûsha, Onoe Ukon, Ichikawa Emiya, Ichikawa Emisaburô, Bandô Yajûrô, Ichikawa En'ya, Nakamura Takanosuke, Ôtani Hiromatsu, Ichikawa Seiko

    Comments

    A special program reviving the 2023 Kabuki drama based on Monkey Punch's famous manga/anime "Lupin the Third".

     
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