The film explores male identity and gender performance within traditional kabuki through its lead characters. However, available information indicates no explicit depiction of LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or themes, with critical reviews not framing it as an LGBTQ narrative.

The film Kokuho, 2025, focuses on the traditional Japanese kabuki practice of onnagata, where male actors embody female roles. The narrative does not feature transsexual or transgender characters or themes, nor does it portray gender transition beyond the artistic performance. For example, the main character's 'female avatar' is framed as an artistic persona and a source of artistic identity and conflict, not a personal gender identity.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

No characters have been identified whose on-screen gender in the film differs from their established gender in the source novel or historical record. Character genders remain consistent across the adaptation.

The film is an adaptation of a Japanese novel, set in Japan, and features Japanese kabuki. The confirmed principal cast members are all Japanese actors. There is no information indicating that any character, implicitly Japanese in the source material, is portrayed by an actor of a different race.