An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.
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The people behind it
Kazuo Hasegawa
Yokinojo, Yamitaro and Yokinojo's mother (as Chôjirô Hayashi)
Tokusaburo Arashi
Kikunojō Nakamura
Kokuten Kōdō
Dobu
Akiko Chihaya
Namiji
Naoe Fushimi
Ohatsu
Eiko Takamatsu
Namiji's nanny
Hideo Fujino
Wakita
Yasurō Shiga
Kōhei
Ichiro Yuki
Official Okubo
Tetsu Tsuboi
Hermit
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