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| ACTORS: | Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Kon Ichikawa |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 16 June, 1971 |
| MANUFACTURER: | New Yorker Films |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - Japanese |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 717119227432 |
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Customer Reviews of An Actor's Revenge
"Camp"--the pursuit of style If film is about the pursuit of style, Ichikawa Kon does the best. From one scene to another, Kon demonstrates that the pleasure of movie does not lie in "content," but the stylish movement.
Kon experiments this philosophy in his other films, such as "The Tokyo Olympiad" (a documentary of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964) and "The Makioka Sisters."
It's truly a shame that this VHS version is out of print. Someone MUST release this film on DVD.
Entertaining
The greatest difficulty for the viewer is in deciding how to take this film. The story at its most basic is this: a kabuki actor famed for playing women finds the three men who drove his father to madness and his mother to suicide. Bent on revenge he takes advantage of the love of the daughter of one of these men and turns the men against eachother until, in the end all three are dead as is the daughter. Having never wanted to have taken this revenge and grieved at the death of the daughter, the actor leaves and is never seen again. However we are not meant to be emotionally rapt through all of this. There is a backing cast of wacky and sometimes noble characters, mostly theives, that bring a great bit of light humour into the mix. As it is, we must take it as neither drama nor comedy, but something approximating both. It is no masterpiece of cinema, but it ends up being a very enjoyable film to watch. The lighting and cinematographical technique used throughout is very impressive. It creates a dramatic setting similar to the stage on kabuki company performs their fanciful dramas. This film too is another fanciful production.