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Director:
Writers:
Daisuke Itô (adaptation)
Teinosuke Kinugasa (adapt)
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Release Date:
16 June 1971 (USA) more
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Plot:
While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three... more | add synopsis
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A strange, beautiful masterpiece from Ichikawa. more (11 total)

Cast

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Kazuo Hasegawa ... Yukinojo Nakamura / Yamitaro the Thief
Fujiko Yamamoto ... Ohatsu
Ayako Wakao ... Namiji
Eiji Funakoshi ... Heima Kadokura
Narutoshi Hayashi ... Mukuzu
Eijirô Yanagi ... Hiromi-ya
Chûsha Ichikawa ... Kikunojo Nakamura
Ganjiro Nakamura ... Sansai Dobe
Saburo Date ... Kawaguchi-ya
Jun Hamamura ... Isshosai
Kikue Môri ... Cruel Old Woman
Masayoshi Kikuno ... Yukinojo's Father
Raizô Ichikawa ... Hirutaro
Shintarô Katsu ... Hojin
Yutaka Nakayama ... Townsman
Chitose Maki ... Townswoman
Toshio Chiba ... Ronin
Koichi Mizuhara ... Dobe's Man
Tadashi Kato ... Shogun's Retainer
Eigoro Onoe ... Shogun
Shirô Ôtsuji ... Civil Guardsman
Tokio Oki ... Civil Guardsman
Musei Tokugawa ... Narrator
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jun Arimura
Takeo Inoue
Gen Kimura
Akira Konami
Hajime Koshikawa
Keiko Koyanagi
Akira Shiga
Takeshi Yabuya
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Directed by
Kon Ichikawa 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Daisuke Itô  adaptation
Teinosuke Kinugasa  adapt
Otokichi Mikami  newspaper serial
Natto Wada  screenplay

Produced by
Hiroaki Fujii .... planner
Masaichi Nagata .... producer
 
Original Music by
Tamekichi Mochizuki 
Masao Yagi 
 
Cinematography by
Setsuo Kobayashi 
 
Film Editing by
Shigeo Nishida 
 
Production Design by
Yoshinobu Nishioka 
 
Costume Design by
Yoshio Ueno 
 
Production Management
Tadao Murakami .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Akira Inoue .... assistant director
Masaya Nakamura .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Noburu Kurashima .... sound effects
Iwao Otani .... sound designer (as Iwao Ootani)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Kenichi Okamoto .... lighting technician
 
Editorial Department
Toshio Kajitani .... color technician
 
Music Department
Yasushi Akutagawa .... composer: additional music
 
Other crew
Kangoro Fujima .... stage choreography
Shohei Miyauchi .... action choreographer
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
An Actor's Revenge (USA)
Revenge of a Kabuki Actor
The Revenge of Ukeno-Jo
The Revenge of Yuki-No-Jo
La rivincita di Yuki-no-jo (Italy) [it]
La venganza de un actor (Argentina) [es]
La vengeance d'un acteur (France) [fr]
Yukinojôs Rache - Von Dämonen verzauberte Schneemacht (West Germany) [de]
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Runtime:
113 min | Argentina:115 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

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Originally designed as a tribute to actor Kazuo Hasegawa, whose 300th film this was. The film was based Teinosuke Kinugasa's Yukinojo henge (1935) which also starred Hasegawa in the same dual role. more
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Version of Yukinojo henge (1935) more

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
A strange, beautiful masterpiece from Ichikawa., 8 May 1999
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Author: Rigor from Chicago, USA

What is so wonderful about this film is Ichikawa's determination to create a filmic language that can relate dialogically to the

theater language of Kabuki, yet, still facilitate great naturalistic narrative tension. Our sense of space and time is played with to great effect in this story of a great Kabuki actor's search fro revenge against the people responsible for his family's tragic fall. This is a key film of the modern cinema that features breathtaking cinematography, editing and sound. Kon Ichikawa is a neglected master filmmaker whose entire eclectic body of work deserves far more attention than it has received - especially in the United States.

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