Double Suicide
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| Directed by | Masahiro Shinoda |
| Produced by | Masahiro Shinoda Masayuki Nakajima |
| Starring | Kichiemon Nakamura Shima Iwashita Hosei Komatsu Yusuke Takita Kamatari Fujiwara |
| Music by | Toru Takemitsu |
| Cinematography | Toichiro Narushima |
| Release date(s) |  May 24, 1969 February 11, 1970 |
| Running time | 105 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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Double Suicide (心中天網島 Shinjû: 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.
This film was released on DVD in Japanese with English subtitles in Region 1 on 30 January 2001.
[edit] External links
- Double Suicide at the Internet Movie Database
- Criterion Collection essay by Claire Johnston
- 心中天網島 (Shinjû: Ten no amijima) (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-07-18.
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