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Kon Ichikawa

An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojô henge)

115' - 1963 - Drama - Dialogue: Japanese
Director: Kon Ichikawa Composer: Yasushi Akutagawa, Masao Yagi, Tamezô Mochizuki With: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao
While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them...

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Credits

Director

Kon Ichikawa

Composer

Yasushi Akutagawa, Masao Yagi, Tamezô Mochizuki

With

Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao

Scenario

Daisuke Itô, Teinosuke Kinugasa

Director of Photography

Setsuo Kobayashi

Editor

Shigeo Nishida

Producer

Masaichi Nagata

More information

Dialogue

Japanese

Countries of production

Japan

Screenplay based on

"Yukinojô henge" (Otokichi Mikami)

Year

1963

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