Kon Ichikawa Books
Yukinojo Henge videorecording An actor s revenge
By Kon Ichikawa
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 swor...
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Tokyo Olympiad
By Suketaro Taguchi, Kon Ichikawa
An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors--the tear...
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Yukinojo henge
By Kon Ichikawa
A female impersonator in Japan's nineteenth-century Kabuki theater executes an intricately planned retaliation against the three men responsible for the death of his parents.
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