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An Actor's Revenge (Criterion Collection) on DVD

While touring 19th-century Japan, kabuki performer/female impersonator Yukinojo Nakamura (Kazuo Hasegawa) tracked down the three prosperous merchants who had disgraced and driven his parents to suicide a generation before... and utilized his acting skills to lure them into a web of mutual betrayal and death. Kon Ichikawa's color-splashed, powerful story also stars Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi. AKA: "Revenge of a Kabuki Actor." 113 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Japanese; Subtitles: English; featurettes. In Japanese with English subtitles.