This wildly melodramatic tale of a kabuki female impersonator who exacts a long-delayed ... more
revenge on the men who drove his parents to suicide is played out against a backdrop of comic rivalries between thieves in the Tokyo underworld. Kazuo Hasegawa play...
If ever there was a triumph of bricks without straw, this is it.An Actor's Revengeis based ... more
on a weary old melodrama that had already been twice filmed before Kon Ichikawa got to it. The action is set in 1836. A Kabuki star famed for his female roles sets out to avenge himself on three rich merchants who drove his parents to suicide, aided by an audacious bandit. In the 1935 film version both roles were taken by matinee idol Kazuo Hasegawa. In this, Ichikawa's 1963 remake, his outrageous ploy was to cast the same actor (now well into his 50s, paunchy and jowly) in the same double role--and then throw at him a whole heap of extravagant visual and stylistic tricks: split screen, distorted colour, strip-cartoon thought-bubbles and more. Rather than trying to rationalise the corny plot Ichikawa plays it at full throttle, revelling in its wild implausibilities and sexual ambiguity: at one point Hasegawa as the bandit watches himself as the actor, in drag, making falsetto advances to a woman. The photography, art direction and jazz-tinged music score all contribute to the mood of shameless bravura.An Actor's Revengeis a film that has to be seen to be disbelieved. --Philip Kemp
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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.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
BFI VIDEO; PIAS UK; SONY DADC
Release date
27/01/2003
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
BFIVD 571
Barcode
5035673005712
Production Designer
Toshio Nishioka
Screenwriter
Natto Wada
Composer
Yasushi Akutagawa
Director of Photography
Setsuo Kobayashi
Author
Ito Daisuke, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Otokichi Mikami
Languages
Main Language
Japanese
Subtitle Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD Description
Perhaps 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.
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