Ichikawa Eno, founder of "Super Kabuki," dies at 83

Ichikawa Eno, a Kabuki actor who combined traditional elements with modern theater technology, has died of arrhythmia in Tokyo, Shochiku Co. said. He was 83.The founder of "Super Kabuki" gained popularity for staging spectacular epics that included "flying" by rope over audiences more than 5,000 times, for which he earned a Guinness World Record.The Tokyo native, whose real name was Masahiko Kinoshi, died on Wednesday, according to Shochiku, the operator of Kabuki theaters in Japan.He was diagnosed with brain infarction in 2003. He briefly returned to the stage after becoming the second-gen…READ FULL ARTICLE