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Product Identifiers
PublisherBFI Publishing
ISBN-100851705243
ISBN-139780851705248
eBay Product ID (ePID)790749
Product Key Features
Book TitleActor's Revenge
Number of Pages55 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFilm / Reference, Screenplays, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year1995
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts
AuthorIan Breakwell
Book SeriesBfi Film Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-139029
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingAn
Dewey Decimal791.43/72
SynopsisAn Actor's Revenge is one of the masterworks of the modern Japanese cinema. Visually stunning, with some of the most imaginative widescreen camera-work ever seen, the film exemplifies director Kon Ichikawa's self description: 'I was trained as a painter and I strill think like one'. How Ichikawa transforms a melodramatic tale into a total cinematic experience is vividly analysed in fellow artist Ian Breakwell's sympathetic study. An Actor's Revenge tells the bizarre story of Yukinojo, a nineteenth century Kabuki female impersonator who employs his theatrical skills to deceives and destroy the merchants who caused the death of his parents. Ichikawa's film is a remake, thirty years later, of Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1936 box-office smash, using the same actor, Kazuo Hasegawa, in the twin roles of transvestite Yukinojo and virile thief Yamitaro. What might have been a mere gimmick proved an inspired stroke of casting. Breakwell acclaims Hasegawa's dual performance as one of the cinema's greatest displays of acting, in which the highly artificial conventions of Japanese theatre are mobilised in a dazzling play on the mysteries of identity and sexuality., Each volume in the BFI Film Classics series features a brief production history, detailed filmography, notes and bibliography. This text explores An Actor's Revenge, a melodrama re-made from the 1930s original and featuring the same lead actor. It is directed by Kon Ichikawa and tells the story of a female impersonator who schemes to deceive and destroy the merchants who brought about the death of his parents.
LC Classification NumberPN1997.Y85B7 1995
