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Double Suicide is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Masahiro Shinoda with Shima Iwashita

Double Suicide (1969)

Shinjū: Ten no Amijima

Double Suicide
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Length 1h45
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating75% 3.7896753.7896753.7896753.7896753.789675

Double Suicide (心中天網島, Shinjū: Ten no amijima) is a 1969 film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It is based on the 1721 play The Love Suicides at Amijima by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. This play is often performed in the bunraku style (that is, with puppets). In the film, the story is performed with live actors, but also makes use of Japanese theatrical traditions such as the kuroko (stagehands dressed entirely in black) who invisibly interact with the actors, and the set is non-realist. The film opens with the preparations by the kuroko for a modern-day presentation of a puppet play while a voice-over is heard of someone, presumably the director, calling on the telephone to find a location for the penultimate scene of the lovers' suicide. Soon human actors are substituted for the puppets, and the action proceeds in a naturalistic fashion, until from time to time the kuroko intervene to accomplish scene shifts or heighten the dramatic intensity of the two lovers' resolve to be united in death.

The stylized sets and the period costumes and props simultaneously convey a classical theatricality and contemporaneous modernity. Jihei's fatal love interest, Koharu the prostitute, and his neglected wife, Osan, are both played by actress Shima Iwashita.

This film was released on DVD in Japanese with English subtitles in Region 1 on 30 January 2001.

Synopsis

Au XVIIIe siècle, un marchand de papier tombe amoureux de Koharu, une courtisane, mais ne peut se permettre de la racheter. Son épouse demande à Koharu de le quitter pour préserver son couple.

Actors

Shima Iwashita

(Koharu and Osan)
Nakamura Kichiemon II

(Jihei)
Kamatari Fujiwara

(Owner of the Yamatoya)
Yoshi Katō

(Gosaemon)
Jun Hamamura
Sumiko Hidaka

(Proprietress)
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