曽根崎心中 (1978)
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.
Casting arrow_drop_down
Meiko Kaji
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Ryudo Uzaki
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Hisashi Igawa
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Sachiko Hidari
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Isao Hashimoto
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Shigeo Katô
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Gen Kimura
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Jun Haichi
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Sachiko Meguro
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Kazuyo Aoki
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Yûko Chiba
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Ren Yamamoto
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Crew arrow_drop_down
Yasuzō Masumura
Director
Director
Monzaemon Chikamatsu
Original Story
Original Story
Ryudo Uzaki
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Katsuhiko Sato
Lighting Technician
Lighting Technician
Yasuzō Masumura
Screenplay
Screenplay
Yoshio Shirasaka
Screenplay
Screenplay
Shigeo Mano
Art Direction
Art Direction
Setsuo Kobayashi
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Tatsuji Nakashizu
Editor
Editor
