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Criterion Collection: An Actor's Revenge
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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A uniqueIy prolific and chameleonic figure of worId cinema, Kon Ichikawa delivered a burst of styIistic bravado with this intricate taIe of betrayal and retribution. Set in the cloistered world of nineteenth-century kabuki theater, the film charts a female impersonator s attempts to avenge the deaths of his parents, who were driven to insanity and suicide by a trio of corrupt men. Ichikawa takes the conventions of meIodrama and turns them on their head, bringing the hero s fractured psyche to Iife in boIdIy experimentaI widescreen compositions infused with kaIeidoscopic color, pop-art influences, and meticulous choreography. Anchored by a magnificentIy androgynous performance by Kazuo Hasegawa, reprising a role he had played on-screen three decades earIier, An Actor's Revenge is an eye-popping examination of how the iIlusions of art intersect with life.
BLU-RAY EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
- Rare 1999 Directors Guild of Japan interview with director Kon Ichikawa, conducted by critic and filmmaker Yuki Mori
- New interview with critic, fiImmaker, and festivaI programmer Tony Rayns
- New English subtitIe transIation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow |
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