A masterpiece and one of the finest uses of widescreen in all of cinema. Kon Ichikawa chose to film "An Actor's Revenge" in the style of Kabuki Theatre since that, indeed, is the film's subject or at least part of it. Yukinojo, (a magnificent Kazuo Hasegawa), is the leading actor and female impersonator in a theatre troupe when, one evening, he spies in the audience the men responsible for his parent's deaths and immeadiately he swears his revenge. What follows is a blackly comic tragedy, at once theatrical and yet wholly cinematic and quite unlike anything in Western cinema. The fact that Hasegawa is playing a dual role only adds to the magic and the mystification. Utterly extraordinary.Monday, 21 October 2019
AN ACTOR'S REVENGE
A masterpiece and one of the finest uses of widescreen in all of cinema. Kon Ichikawa chose to film "An Actor's Revenge" in the style of Kabuki Theatre since that, indeed, is the film's subject or at least part of it. Yukinojo, (a magnificent Kazuo Hasegawa), is the leading actor and female impersonator in a theatre troupe when, one evening, he spies in the audience the men responsible for his parent's deaths and immeadiately he swears his revenge. What follows is a blackly comic tragedy, at once theatrical and yet wholly cinematic and quite unlike anything in Western cinema. The fact that Hasegawa is playing a dual role only adds to the magic and the mystification. Utterly extraordinary.
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