Where to Watch Kabuki Techniques (1969)

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We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'Kabuki Techniques' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of how you can watch 'Kabuki Techniques' right now, here are some details about the documentary flick.

Kabuki Techniques starring Shōroku Onoe II, Onoe Baiko VII, Faubion Bowers, James MacAndrew has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 27 min, and a scheduled release date of September 21st, 1969.

Need a quick rundown of the movie? Here's the plot: "Two of the greatest stars of Japan’s kabuki theater reveal what has only rarely been seen: the actual acting techniques used in this most difficult and splendid of theater forms. Onoe Shoroku II and Onoe Baiko VII discuss and demonstrate their craft in conversation with the well-known author of works on Asian arts, Faubion Bowers. Includes film of great kabuki performances of the past. These great kabuki actors make the mechanics of theater kata (poses) clear and show some of the gestures and nuances of body language that communicate specific emotions and situations. Baiko, a famous player of women’s roles, performs a classic woman’s speech in full costume and heavy white-face make-up, and then does the same scene again in plain face and simple clothes. He shows how the Japanese fan speaks in its own language. He and Shoroku act out a fight scene; Shoroku demonstrates one of kabuki’s elaborate exit walk sequences, and compares different ways of making stylized gestures." .