Movie Actor Hayashi Chōjirō as Yukinojō
- Medium
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper with mica
- Dimensions
- 14 1/2 × 9 15/16 in. (36.83 × 25.24 cm) (image) 23 × 19 × 1 1/2 in. (58.42 × 48.26 × 3.81 cm) (outer frame)
- Genre
Tags
Japan
About
In 1935, Yukinojō henge, in English known as The Revenge of Yukinojō, was the most successful movie for the producer Shochiku until that point. Hayashi Chōjirō (Hasegawa Kazuo, 1908–1984) played the lead role of Nakamura Yukinojō. He was trained as a kabuki actor but then became an extremely popular movie actor who appeared in 290 films between 1927 and 1963.