The traditional Japanese art form of kabuki made its debut Friday night on the Las Vegas Strip at the famed Fountains of Bellagio.
Not the typical kabuki staging of the more than 400-year-old traditional art, the kabuki play "Koi-Tsukami" ("Fight With a Carp") received a Las Vegas-style production with high tech upgrades giving the traditional art a new flair.
In the production, renowned kabuki actor Ichikawa Somegoro, 42, plays a young man who falls in love with a beautiful princess, played by 22-year-old actor Nakamura Yonekichi. The princess, who is actually a carp seeking vengeance for the death of her fiance, transforms into a giant fish and a battle ensues.