Created for the "Esso World Theater" series of films in 1964, it features excerpts from "Bugaku," "Gagaku," "Noh, " and "Kabuki" scenes performed by the well-known dancers, musicians and actors and actresses.

The lion dance in traditional Japanese theatre.

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as ...

Hanbei (Arata Furuta), the boss of the labor agency Fujitsuboya is known to the underworld as the le...
[…] A reel was shot of the Noh drama Momiji-gari (Maple Leaf Hunters, or Viewing Scarlet Maple Leave...