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The tale of a female impersonator who exacts a revenge on the men who drove his parents to suicide. Japanese dialogue.

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EAN5035673005712

eBay Product ID (ePID)3956116

Product Key Features

ActorKazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao

Film/TV TitleAn Actor's Revenge

DirectorKon Ichikawa

LanguageJapanese

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time108 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2003

FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles

GenreSports

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureJapan

ComposerYasushi Akutagawa

Production DesignerToshio Nishioka

Additional InformationPerhaps director Kon Ichikawa's most stylistically inventive film, AN ACTOR'S REVENGE was adapted from a newspaper serial written by Otokichi Mikami and stars Kazuo Hasegawa as Yukinojo Nakamura, a celebrated "oyama," or female impersonator, working with the Ichimura kabuki troupe in 1836 Edo. During a performance one night, he catches sight of Sansai Dobe (Ganjiro Nakamura), the magistrate who ordered the murder of the actor's father years before. Despite the objections of his teacher, Yukinojo is intent on taking revenge not only against Dobe but against Kawaguchiya (Saburo Date) and Kokaiya (Eijaro Yanagi), businessmen who were also involved in the crime. He intends to begin by seducing Dobe's daughter Namiji (Ayako Wakao), but when she falls in love with him after seeing him on the stage, Yukinojo begins to approach his plan differently. With rice in short supply, Kawaguchiya has tried to corner the market to best business rival Kokaiya. Yukinojo uses the situation to play the two off one another, resulting in successive tragedies for Kawaguchiya. Kokaiya's next action takes everyone by surprise. Ichikawa weds visual and narrative elements of the Kabuki theater to the conventional revenge plot in a coruscating ballet of light, color, and action.

ScreenwriterNatto Wada

AuthorOtokichi Mikami, Ito Daisuke, Teinosuke Kinugasa

Movie/TV TitleAn Actor's Revenge

Director of PhotographySetsuo Kobayashi