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.
Original Title: 曽根崎心中
Production Year: 1978
Duration: 1h 52m
Production Country: Japan
Quality: FHD
Language / Subtitle: English
Director: Yasuzō Masumura
Cast: Gen Kimura, Hisashi Igawa, Isao Hashimoto, Jun Haichi, Kazuyo Aoki, Meiko Kaji, Ryudo Uzaki, Sachiko Hidari, Sachiko Meguro, Shigeo Katô
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