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Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978)

ALL 04/29/1978 (ja) Crime, Drama 112 Min
  • Release
    04/29/1978
  • Production
    Art Theatre Guild
  • Rotten tomato
    68%
  • Original title
    曽根崎心中
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.

  1. Yasuzō Masumura

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Producer



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Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978) 112 Min

ALL 04/29/1978 (ja)
Crime, Drama
  • Release 04/29/1978
  • Production
    Art Theatre Guild
  • Original title 曽根崎心中
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.

  1. Yasuzō Masumura

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Tatsuji Nakashizu

    Editor

  4. Producer



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