Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

1978
1h 52m
6.1

6.1/10

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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.

Status: Released

Language: JA

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Production Information

Production Companies
Art Theatre Guild
Production Countries
Japan
Spoken Languages
Japanese

Quick Facts

Original Title 曽根崎心中
Release Date April 29, 1978
Status Released
Language JA
IMDb ID tt0077463

Cast

Meiko Kaji
Meiko Kaji

O-Hatsu

Ryudo Uzaki
Ryudo Uzaki

Tokubei

Hisashi Igawa
Hisashi Igawa

Kyuemon

Sachiko Hidari
Sachiko Hidari

O-Sai

Isao Hashimoto
Isao Hashimoto

Kuheiji

Shigeo Katō
Shigeo Katō

Gen Kimura
Gen Kimura

Kichibei

Jun Haichi
Jun Haichi

Sachiko Meguro
Sachiko Meguro

Kazuyo Aoki
Kazuyo Aoki

Yūko Chiba
Yūko Chiba

Ren Yamamoto
Ren Yamamoto

Key Crew

Yasuzō Masumura
Director
Yasuzō Masumura
Screenplay
Yoshio Shirasaka
Screenplay
Hiroaki Fujii
Producer
Ryuhei Nishimura
Producer

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