Changing one’s career at the age of 46 is no easy task, let alone choosing to become a kabuki performer from scratch.
But for award-winning actor Teruyuki Kagawa, who made his kabuki stage debut May 29 in Tokyo, it is a meaningful journey to rediscover his roots and make up for the decades he never got to spend with his father, kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III.
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