Oscars Quest ’26: My “Kokuho” Road Trip

Kokuho movie poster, with Ryo Yoshizama in a robe, applying red makeup under his right eye.

At last, a rare sighting in the wild!

Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: Oscars Quest ’26 continues! Once again we see how many among the latest wave of Academy Award nominees I can catch before the big ABC ceremony, often taking unusual measures to collect all those viewing experiences. Sometimes that’s meant catching indie films in their one-week runs here in Indianapolis theaters, using streaming services I’d never heard of before, or lucking into limited-time opportunities through cultural organizations. In the case of Kokuho, all those avenues failed me. I had to go to a new extreme like none I’d committed before: a 160-mile road trip.

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