Double Suicide of Sonezaki

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.

Director

Yasuzō Masumura

Written by

Yasuzō Masumura, Yoshio Shirasaka

Produced by

Hiroaki Fujii, Ryuhei Nishimura

Composer

Ryudo Uzaki

Cinematographer

Setsuo Kobayashi

Editor

Tatsuji Nakashizu

Studio

Art Theatre Guild

Origin country

Japan

Runtime

1h 52m

Language

Japanese

Also known as

The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

TMDB

6.3/10 (10 votes)

IMDb

6.8/10 (188 votes)