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Noh Mask Murders
JAPAN · 1991

Noh Mask Murders

Kon Ichikawa
family succession Japanese theater tradition generational conflict Noh performance art inheritance competition
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Synopsis

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.

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