An Actor's Revenge

Highly rated almost everywhere but didn't make much impression on me bar the cinematography which is truly excellent. I'm not a fan of kabuki (which may be my loss?) and this felt very "stagy" with the usually villainous robbers being (a) too many and (b) too nice. As it is a commemorative piece the original lead (from the 30's??) was allowed to reprise his role and tho he does well and the makeup art is well enough done, you keep thinking "no, he's too old for that".