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Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978)

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.
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Yasuzō Masumura profile
Yasuzō Masumura

Director

Yasuzō Masumura profile
Yasuzō Masumura

Screenplay

Cast

Meiko Kaji profile
Meiko Kaji

Ryudo Uzaki profile
Ryudo Uzaki

Hisashi Igawa profile
Hisashi Igawa

Sachiko Hidari profile
Sachiko Hidari

Isao Hashimoto profile
Isao Hashimoto

Shigeo Katō profile
Shigeo Katō

Gen Kimura profile
Gen Kimura

Jun Haichi profile
Jun Haichi

Sachiko Meguro profile
Sachiko Meguro

Kazuyo Aoki profile
Kazuyo Aoki

Yūko Chiba profile
Yūko Chiba

Ren Yamamoto profile
Ren Yamamoto

Meiko Kaji profile
Meiko Kaji

Ryudo Uzaki profile
Ryudo Uzaki

Hisashi Igawa profile
Hisashi Igawa

Sachiko Hidari profile
Sachiko Hidari

Isao Hashimoto profile
Isao Hashimoto

Shigeo Katō profile
Shigeo Katō

Gen Kimura profile
Gen Kimura

Jun Haichi profile
Jun Haichi

Sachiko Meguro profile
Sachiko Meguro

Kazuyo Aoki profile
Kazuyo Aoki

Yūko Chiba profile
Yūko Chiba

Ren Yamamoto profile
Ren Yamamoto

Extra

Release Date

April 29, 1978

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

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