Review of An Actor's Revenge

I obviously wanted to watch this Japanese film because it appeared in the page of the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, and the title certainly sounded interesting enough. Basically the story follows Yukinojo Nakamura (Kazuo Hasegawa), a leading female impersonator, who is in a touring kabuki troupe performing. By chance he happens to come across the three men who twenty years ago apparently led his parents to committing suicide, and he wants his revenge for them doing this. He is going to do this not by killing them, although that could come into play later, but by getting the daughter of one of them men to fall in love with him and ruin their lives, and by ruining them financially. I cannot say much more than that, as I didn't really understand everything going on to get this story rolling, and it being rather unusual most of the time. Also starring Fujiko Yamamoto as Ohatsu, Ayako Wakao as Namiji and Ganjiro Nakamura as Sansai Dobe. Despite not understanding most of the film, the performance by the lead actor spending most of the time in drag does a good job, and the film is filled with great costumes and a great use of vibrant colours, so it is not a bad drama. Good!