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.
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| Kazuo Hasegawa | ... | Yukinojo Nakamura / Yamitaro the Thief | |
| Fujiko Yamamoto | ... | Ohatsu | |
| Ayako Wakao | ... | Namiji | |
| Eiji Funakoshi | ... | Heima Kadokura | |
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Narutoshi Hayashi | ... | Mukuzu |
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Eijirô Yanagi | ... | Hiromi-ya |
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Chûsha Ichikawa | ... | Kikunojo Nakamura |
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Ganjirô Nakamura | ... | Sansai Dobe |
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Yutaka Nakayama | ... | Townsman |
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Chitose Maki | ... | Townswoman |
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Toshio Chiba | ... | Ronin |
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Kôichi Mizuhara | ... | Dobe's Man |
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Saburô Date | ... | Kawaguchi-ya |
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Shirô Ôtsuji | ... | Civil Guardsman |
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Jun Hamamura | ... | Isshosai |
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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... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
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JapaneseRelease Date:
16 June 1971 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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2.35 : 1
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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. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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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.