Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978) [N/A]
Release Date:
April 29, 1978
Original Title:
曽根崎心中
Alternate Titles:
Doppio suicidio a Sonezaki
Double suicide à Sonezaki
Kettős szerelmi öngyilkosság Szonezakiban
Podwójne samobójstwo w Sonezaki
Sonezaki shinju
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
Самоубийство влюбленных в Сонэдзаки
Genres:
Crime | Drama
Production Companies:
Art Theatre Guild
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 112
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.