Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Double Suicide of Sonezaki by Yasuzō Masumura

6.80

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.

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Cast

Meiko Kaji

Meiko Kaji as

Ryudo Uzaki

Ryudo Uzaki as

Hisashi Igawa

Hisashi Igawa as

Sachiko Hidari

Sachiko Hidari as

Isao Hashimoto

Isao Hashimoto as

Shigeo Katō

Shigeo Katō as

Gen Kimura

Gen Kimura as

Jun Haichi

Jun Haichi as

Sachiko Meguro

Sachiko Meguro as

Kazuyo Aoki

Kazuyo Aoki as

Yūko Chiba

Yūko Chiba as

Ren Yamamoto

Ren Yamamoto as

Kayoko Onishi

Kayoko Onishi as

Shinya Kashima

Shinya Kashima as

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