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An Actor's Revenge is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kon Ichikawa released in USA on 13 june 1971 with Kazuo Hasegawa
An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Yukinojô henge
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 13 june 1971
Length 1h53
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
OriginJapon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about television
Rating72%
An Actor's Revenge (雪之丞変化, Yukinojō Henge), also known as Revenge of a Kabuki Actor, is a 1963 film directed by Kon Ichikawa. The film was produced in Eastmancolor and Daieiscope for Daiei Film.
The film is a remake of the 1935 film of the same title (distributed in English-speaking countries under the title The Revenge of Yukinojō), which also starred Kazuo Hasegawa. The 1963 An Actor's Revenge marked Hasegawa's 300th role as a film actor. The screenplay, written by Ichikawa's wife, Natto Wada, was based on the adaptation by Daisuke Itō and Teinosuke Kinugasa of a newspaper serial originally written by Otokichi Mikami that was used for the 1935 version. There is also an opera, An Actor's Revenge, with music by Minoru Miki and libretto by James Kirkup and a 2008 NHK production of the same story, with Yukinojō and Yamitaro played by Hideaki Takizawa.
Synopsis
Three men, Sansai Dobe (Ganjirō Nakamura), Kawaguchiya (Saburō Date) and Hiromiya (Eijirō Yanagi) are responsible for the deaths of seven-year-old Yukitarō’s mother and father. Yukitarō is adopted and brought up by Kikunojō Nakamura (Chūsha Ichikawa), the actor-manager of an Osaka kabuki troupe. The adult Yukitarō (Kazuo Hasegawa) becomes an onnagata, a male actor who plays female roles. He takes the stage name Yukinojō. Like many of the great onnagata, particularly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he wears women’s clothes and uses the language and mannerisms of a woman offstage as well as on. Many years later, the troupe pays a visit to Edo, where the three men responsible for his parents’ deaths now live. Yukinojō brings about their deaths by means of various stratagems, then, apparently overcome by what he has done, retires from the stage and disappears, no-one knows where. The events of the film are coolly observed and sardonically commented on by the Robin-Hood-like thief Yamitarō, also played by Hasegawa.Actors
Kazuo Hasegawa
(Yukinojo Nakamura / Yamitaro the Thief)
Ayako Wakao
(Namiji)
Fujiko Yamamoto
(Ohatsu)
Ichikawa Raizō VIII
(Hirutaro)
Shintarō Katsu
(Hojin)
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