This is the original film on which Kon Ichikawa's bold 1963 remake was based. Kazuo Hasegawa, who starred in the Ichikawa film, is featured here as well, some 28 years earlier. The story concerns the vengeance of an oyama, a Kabuki female impersonator, on the three villains responsible for his parents' gruesome death. Hasegawa plays three roles: Yukinojo, the actor; Yamitaro, his gangster assistant; and Yukinojo's mother. At the time of Ichikawa's remake, this version was referred to as a “hoary melodrama” handed Ichikawa as penance for his politically risky previous film, and was thought lost in the West.