An Actor's Revenge (1963)
"Yukinojô henge" (original title)

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, ... See full summary »

Director:

Kon Ichikawa

Writers:

Daisuke Itô (adaptation), Teinosuke Kinugasa (adapt),

Stars:

Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kazuo Hasegawa	...	Yukinojo Nakamura / Yamitaro the Thief
Fujiko Yamamoto	...	Ohatsu
Ayako Wakao	...	Namiji
Eiji Funakoshi	...	Heima Kadokura
Narutoshi Hayashi	...	Mukuzu
Eijirô Yanagi	...	Hiromi-ya
Chûsha Ichikawa	...	Kikunojo Nakamura
Ganjirô Nakamura	...	Sansai Dobe
Saburô Date	...	Kawaguchi-ya
Jun Hamamura	...	Isshosai
Kikue Môri	...	Cruel Old Woman
Masayoshi Kikuno	...	Yukinojo's Father
Raizô Ichikawa	...	Hirutaro
Shintarô Katsu	...	Hojin
Yutaka Nakayama	...	Townsman

Storyline

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them...

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Plot Keywords:

kabuki | jidai geki | sword | love | japan | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

16 June 1971 (USA)

Also Known As:

An Actor's Revenge

Company Credits

Production Co:

Daiei Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Originally designed as a tribute to actor Kazuo Hasegawa, whose 300th film this was. The film was based Teinosuke Kinugasa's Yukinojo henge which also starred Hasegawa in the same dual role.

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Connections

Version of Yukinojo henge (1935)

User Reviews

A strange, beautiful masterpiece from Ichikawa.

What is so wonderful about this film is Ichikawa's determination to create a filmic language that can relate dialogically to the

theater language of Kabuki, yet, still facilitate great naturalistic narrative tension. Our sense of space and time is played with to great effect in this story of a great Kabuki actor's search fro revenge against the people responsible for his family's tragic fall. This is a key film of the modern cinema that features breathtaking cinematography, editing and sound. Kon Ichikawa is a neglected master filmmaker whose entire eclectic body of work deserves far more attention than it has received - especially in the United States.