Yes. Just saw an enjoyable play about a grandfather trying to get his grandson to take the sanshin seriously. The play was at the Kumu Theater in downtown Honolulu. They weren't playing chords but rather single note melody accompanied by singing. Finally the grandson incorporates the instrument into rock music and unites the generations. He is inspired to do so by falling in love with a beautiful Okinawan lass. Cherchez la femme.
And lo and behold, it was the play in your attachment, which I hadn't opened. Nice little theater. Once saw a play about a haole woman marrying into a Hawaiian Japanese family. Don't put soy sauce on rice, gringos.
Curiously enough, Stan, I was going through security at an airport about a week ago and a TSA guy asked me if I was carrying a uke (I was). I asked him if he played a uke, and he said no, he played a sanshin!
The instrument figures greatly in Kubo and the Two Strings, a lovely stop-motion film from Laika Studios, and is used in a nice cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" for the end credits: