Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978)

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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
Writers: Yasuzō Masumura, Yoshio Shirasaka.

Casts

	Meiko Kaji as O-Hatsu
	Ryudo Uzaki as Tokubei
	Hisashi Igawa as Kyuemon
	Sachiko Hidari as O-Sai
	Isao Hashimoto as Kuheiji
	Shigeo Katō as
	Gen Kimura as Kichibei
	Jun Haichi as
	Sachiko Meguro as
	Kazuyo Aoki as
	Yūko Chiba as
	Ren Yamamoto as
	Kayoko Onishi as
	Shinya Kashima as

Crew