Details

Release year: 1963

Storyline

Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.

Top credits

Directors

Kon Ichikawa

Writers

Cast

Kazuo Hasegawa — Yukinojo Nakamura, Yamitaro the Thief
Fujiko Yamamoto — Ohatsu
Ayako Wakao — Namiji
Eiji Funakoshi — Heima Kadokura

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Did you know

• Originally designed as a tribute to actor Kazuo Hasegawa, whose 300th film this was. The film was based Teinosuke Kinugasa's Yukinojô henge: Daiippen (1935) which also starred Hasegawa in the same dual role.

• During an exchange about half-way through the film, two characters are discussing the southern city Nagasaki, and they pronounce it 'NaNgasaki', which indicates the convention of speakers from Tokyo/Edo and the north of Japan, despite both characters notionally coming from the south (i.e. Osaka and Nagasaki), where terminal 'g' is not pronounced 'ng'.

• Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.