An Actor's Revenge Dual Format

'An Actor's Revenge' Director: Kon Ichikawa (1963) Contains Blu-ray & DVD | Includes Audio commentary by Japanese film expert Tony Rayns, Nagisa Oshima documentary on the first century of Japanese cinema (1995, 52 mins), fully illustrated booklet and more.

Strange, sumptuous and visually stunning, this wildly melodramatic tale of a kabuki female impersonator who exacts a long-delayed revenge on the men who drove his parents to suicide is played out against a colourful backdrop of comic rivalries between thieves in the Tokyo underworld.

A heady cocktail of swooning romanticism and highly stylised action, with an outstanding soundtrack that ranges from traditional Japanese music to lush Hollywood strings and cocktail jazz, An Actor’s Revenge is a cinematic tour de force.