Japan’s Oscar entry Kokuho , the coming-of-age Kobuki drama that stars Ryo Yoshizawa and Ken Watanabe, will hit U.S. theaters for an award-qualifying run beginning November 14 in Los Angeles and November 21 in New York.

Gkids unveiled the news today as well as the film’s poster (see it below) after it acquired rights to the pic directed by Sang-il Lee ( Pachinko ) just before its North American bow this month at TIFF; it world premiered in May at Cannes in the festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar.

Its U.S. runs will take place first for a week at AMC Universal CityWalk and then a week at the Angelika Film Center in New York. It next AFI Fest in Los Angeles on October 24.

Kokuho is the second highest-grossing live-action movie of all time in Japan , where it has grossed mor

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