Shinjū ten no Amijima = Double suicide /

心中天網島 = Double suicide /

心中天網島 Double suicide /

In this stylized dramatization of the bunraku or puppet theater play, Jihei abandons business, family and self- respect for a passionate love affair with a geisha whose freedom he cannot afford. As the world closes in upon him, he finds his only course of action to be death together with the lover h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Takemitsu, Tōru (Author, Composer)
Corporate Authors:	Hyogensha, Hyōgensha, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha (Producer), American Honda Motor Company Fund, Criterion Collection (Firm), Hyōgensha, Ltd (Producer), Janus Films
Other Authors:	Shinoda, Masahiro, 1931- (Director), Nakamura, Kichiemon, 1944-, Nakamura, Kichiemon, 1944-2021 (Actor), Iwashita, Shima, 1941- (Actor), Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, 1653-1725
Format:	Unknown
Language:	Japanese English
Published:	[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2000 [Irvington, NY] : 2000 [Irvington, NY] : 2000
Series:	Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.) Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 104 Criterion collection ; 104
Subjects:	Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, > 1653-1725 > Film adaptations Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, > 1653-1725 > Film and video adaptations Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, > 1653-1725 1700-1799 Feature films > Japan Feature films Foreign films Geishas > Japan > Drama Man-woman relationships > Japan > Drama Motion pictures, Japanese Suicide > Japan > Drama Geishas Man-woman relationships Suicide Japan Jisatsu > Nihon > Dorama Drama Fiction films Film adaptations Historical films Melodramas (Motion pictures) Romance films Video recordings

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University of Chicago

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Call Number:	PN1997.S556 2000

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Call Number:	DVD15489 DVD3414

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