{"id":6278,"date":"2026-04-03T02:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6278"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:52:36","slug":"%e5%9b%bd%e5%ae%9d-aka-kokuho-by-lee-sang-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/03\/%e5%9b%bd%e5%ae%9d-aka-kokuho-by-lee-sang-il\/","title":{"rendered":"\u56fd\u5b9d aka <em>Kokuh\u014d<\/em> by Lee Sang-il"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Okudera\u2019s script, based on Yoshida\u2019s novel that clocks in at around 800 pages, is terrific.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 The transition between Kurokawa &amp; Koshiyama and Yoshizawa &amp; Yokohama playing Kikuo &amp; Shunsuke is magically seamless.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 It\u2019s strong enough that I\u2019d love to experience the original cut that ran for 4.5 hours.<\/p>\n<p>To underscore dramatic points, the Kabuki music sometimes fades over into the soundtrack; while it broke my immersion each time it\u2019s well-balanced overall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kokuho_(film)\" target=\"somethingUnique\">\u56fd\u5b9d<\/a> aka <em>Kokuh\u014d<\/em> by Lee Sang-il, 2025.<br \/>\nWatched at the Bambi theater on March 29, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/03\/%e5%9b%bd%e5%ae%9d-aka-kokuho-by-lee-sang-il\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \u56fd\u5b9d aka Kokuh\u014d by Lee Sang-il\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Roundly ignored by the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6359,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions\/6359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}