An Actor's Revenge
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| Directed by | Kon Ichikawa |
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata |
| Written by | Natto Wada |
| Starring |
Kazuo Hasegawa Fujiko Yamamoto |
| Music by |
Tamekichi Mochizuki Masao Yagi |
| Cinematography | Setsuo Kobayashi |
| Edited by | Shigeo Nishida |
| Distributed by | Daiei Studios |
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113 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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. It was produced in Eastmancolor and Daieiscope for Daiei Film.
An Actor's Revenge is a remake of the 1935 film of the same title (distributed in English-speaking countries as The Revenge of Yukinojō), which also starred Kazuo Hasegawa. The 1963 remake was 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 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.
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.
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