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 |
| 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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16 June 1971 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Ichikawa supposedly made this movie "to see what cinema could do." He pulls out all the stops and the result is a masterpiece of visual splendor, wit and style that is stunning as well as very entertaining. The story of a man taking revenge against the people who killed his parents is an old cliched melodrama that was assigned to him. But he turns necessity into a virtue by glorifying the kitsch while at the same time keeping an ironic stance. (don't miss a great visual pun involving a gunshot and a crescent moon.)
He uses the widescreen to full effect in adopting the aesthetics of the Kabuki theater. The sheer visual inventiveness of the movie makes for the best kind of eye candy. There are bold splashes of primary colors and dramatic, very theatrical lighting. Some sets are intentionally artificial-looking while others are not. Somehow the two styles don't clash but instead portray the perfect intermingling of theater and cinema. Similarly, the use of jazz and lounge music(!) seems perfectly appropriate.
Hasegawa, the lead actor, played the same role in a previous version of the movie nearly 30 years earlier. A man who acts like a woman, seducing a woman young enough to be his daughter lends a touch of the bizarre which just makes things more interesting. The movie is graced by Ayako Wakao, at the height of her incredible beauty.