Made right in the middle of the most fertile period in the career of director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad), An Actor’s Revenge joins the Criterion Collection this week as spine #912. It’s a drab tale of melodrama and revenge set in 19th-century Edo, as an onnagata (a male actor playing exclusively female roles in Kabuki theatre) crafts an intricate plot of retribution against three men who drove his parents to suicide.
Read my review here: http://screenanarchy.com/2018/02/blu-ray-review-in-an-actors-revenge-a-female-impersonator-walks-home-alone-at-night.html