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曽根崎心中 (1978)
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.
Updated May 24 2020
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Cast
Hisashi Igawa
Sachiko Hidari
Ryûdô Uzaki
Crew
Yasuzô Masumura
Director
Yasuzô Masumura
Screenplay
Monzaemon Chikamatsu
Story
Yoshio Shirasaka
Screenplay
Ryûdô Uzaki
Original Music Composer
Tatsuji Nakashizu
Editor
Setsuo Kobayashi
Director of Photography
Shigeo Mano
Art Direction
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