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The 10-year-old actor is a dual national and he isn’t the heir of a line of male actors, as tradition would have it in the 400-year-old theatrical art of kabuki.
This picture taken on May 1, 2023 show 10-year-old French-Japanese kabuki actor Maholo Terajima (C) during a rehearsal at the Kabuki-za theatre in Tokyo. Like most 10-year-olds in Japan, Maholo Terajima enjoys baseball and video games, but his schedule also includes swordfights, choreography and fan dancing to prepare for his kabuki debut.