Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Meiko Kaji

Age : 77 | Popularity : 12%

Ryudo Uzaki

Age : 78 | Popularity : 3%

Hisashi Igawa

Age : 87 | Popularity : 3%

Sachiko Hidari

Age : 71 | Popularity : 3%

Isao Hashimoto

Age : 58 | Popularity : 3%

Shigeo Katô

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Gen Kimura

Age : 87 | Popularity : 5%

Jun Haichi

Age : 91 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Yasuzō Masumura Yoshio Shirasaka
	Original Story	Monzaemon Chikamatsu
Directing	Director	Yasuzō Masumura
Sound	Original Music Composer	Ryudo Uzaki
Editing	Editor	Tatsuji Nakashizu
Camera	Director of Photography	Setsuo Kobayashi
Art	Art Direction	Shigeo Mano
Lighting	Lighting Technician	Katsuhiko Sato
Department	Role	Name

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