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starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Narutoshi Hayashidirected by: Kon Ichikawa
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303029269
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
ISBN: 6303029264
Label: New Yorker Films
Manufacturer: New Yorker Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Films
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 35007
Studio: New Yorker Films
Theatrical Release Date: June 16, 1971
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Rating:  - When The Wronged Seek Vengeance---But With A Terrible Cost!
My review refers to the Region 2 DVD. Many people are only familiar with director Kon Ichikawa's films "Fires On The Plain," or "The Burmese Harp." However, this talented director also made some other very memorable films. One in particular is the great cinematic masterpiece, "An Actor's Revenge," [aka: Yukinojo henge]. This film is a remake for the 1935 film, which I have never seen, also starring Kazuo Hasegawa in the title role. A little background is necessary for this film. First, Kabuki was ... Read More
Rating: - One of the most visually exciting films ever
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 Ichikawa by the film studio. Supposedly the studio was punishing him because his previous films were not commercial enough. But Ichikawa turns necessity into a virtue by ... Read More
Rating: - "Camp"--the pursuit of style
If film is about the pursuit of style, Ichikawa Kon does the best. From one scene to another, Kon demonstrates that the pleasure of movie does not lie in "content," but the stylish movement.
Kon experiments this philosophy in his other films, such as "The Tokyo Olympiad" (a documentary of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964) and "The Makioka Sisters."
It's truly a shame that this VHS version is out of print. Someone MUST release this film on DVD.
Rating:  - Entertaining
The greatest difficulty for the viewer is in deciding how to take this film. The story at its most basic is this: a kabuki actor famed for playing women finds the three men who drove his father to madness and his mother to suicide. Bent on revenge he takes advantage of the love of the daughter of one of these men and turns the men against eachother until, in the end all three are dead as is the daughter. Having never wanted to have taken this revenge and grieved at the death of the daughter, the actor ... Read More
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