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Double Suicide of Sonezaki
In Japan, suicide has traditionally been a means of social protest. The advent of a new merchant class transforms samurai society in this film set in 1703. Some unscrupulous persons took advantage of these developments before the social order was re-created, and some elements of the social compact are beginning to unravel. An I.O.U. is given to a clerk instead of wages in this scenario. When the destitute clerk gives the paper to the merchant for payment at the agreed-upon time, the merchant becomes enraged and claims the clerk never wrote it and is attempting to scam him. He then orders his thugs to beat up on the cashier.
Released: 1978-04-29