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.
A tale of vengeance, lies, deceit and murder. An Actor's Revenge is a powerful story about a man who's whole being is to seek revenge for his parents death. A lot of really stylistic imagery and settings drastically improves the themes of actors and theaters. It's also wild how actor Kazuo Hasegawa plays both of the two main characters, switching personality from scene to scene, something I don't think was very common back then.
Directed by Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp), who'd established himself as one of the big directors as early as the 50's, which are widely known as the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
"I've made various types of films: period dramas, modern dramas, films set in the Meiji period. But I don't make any distinctions between them - they're all films. True, with a period drama, there are certain conventions. With a modern drama, there is a different style of shooting. So you have to make changes according to the genre, but I never think, 'This is a period drama, so I have to shoot it in such and such a way.' Films are films. If you don't understand that, then you start filming lies".
- Kon Ichikawa
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