An Actor's Revenge

Name: Yukinojô henge
Genre: Drama
Released: 1971-06-16
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao

Original title: Yukinojô henge

19631963
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1h 55m

7.4/10

2.4K

Drama

Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and... Read allYukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.

7.4/10

2.4K

Director
- Kon Ichikawa
Writers
- Otokichi Mikami(newspaper serial)
- Daisuke Itô(screenplay)
- Teinosuke Kinugasa(screenplay)
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Awards
- 1 win

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Fujiko Yamamoto in Yukinojô henge (1963)

Saburô Date, Ganjirô Nakamura, and Ayako Wakao in Yukinojô henge (1963)

Director
- Kon Ichikawa
Writers
- Otokichi Mikami(newspaper serial)
- Daisuke Itô(screenplay)
- Teinosuke Kinugasa(screenplay)
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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... —Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>

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Trivia
Originally designed as a tribute to actor Kazuo Hasegawa, whose 300th film this was. The film was based Teinosuke Kinugasa's Yukinojô henge: Daiippen dainihen (1935) which also starred Hasegawa in the same dual role.

Connections
Version of Yukinojô henge: Daiippen dainihen (1935)

Top review

8/10

Kabuki in a kabuki

This movie is that rare species - a film that doesn't take itself seriously for a moment, and yet is stunningly well made and original.

According to Donald Richies '100 Years of Japanese Cinema' the director was forced to make this movie (the remake of a popular but very hammy 1930's original) as a punishment for his self indulgence in earlier movies. He responded by turning up the campiness to '11' in Spinal Tap terms.

Kon Ichikawa manages to take the story of a famous Kabuki female impersonator who wrecks revenge on three powerful men who killed his parents both beautiful (the scenery and photography is stunning) and queasy - everyone seems to fall in love with the rather ugly and very feminine leading 'man'. The story is irrelevant (presumably deliberately so), its all an exercise in style. You can see where Suzuki and many other later directors got a lot of their ideas. Kon is a very talented and skillful film maker so despite the fact that the cast are clearly playing it up for laughs, it is extremely well made, with wonderful sets and tight editing. Despite its origins, it is genuinely entertaining and required viewing for anyone with an interest in Kabuki or Japanese design.

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