![Cover image for Double suicide [DVD] = Shinjū ten no Amijima](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&client=jlibcatcons&upc=037429149621&oclc=738381488&isbn=9780780023291&issn=/LC.JPG "Cover image for Double suicide [DVD] = Shinjū ten no Amijima")
Title:
Double suicide [DVD] = Shinjū ten no Amijima
JLCTITLE245:
[DVD] = [presented by] Janus Films ; Hyōgensha, Nihon Āto Shiatā Girudo ; seisaku Nakajima Masayuki, Shinoda Masahiro ; gensaku Chikamatsu Monzaemon ; kyakushoku Tomioka Taeko, Takemitsu Tōru, Shinoda Masahiro ; kantoku Shinoda Masahiro.
Edition:
Fullscreen
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2000]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9780780023291
Series:
General Note:
Title from container and disc.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
Based on: Shinjū ten no Amijima / Chikamatsu Monzaemon.
Abstract:
In this stylized dramatization of the 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 in death together with the lover he is unable to obtain in life.
Personal Subject:
Added Author:
Added Corporate Author:
Variant Title:
Other title: Shinjū ten no Amijima
Credits:
Director of photography, Narushima Tōichirō ; music, Takemitsu Tōru.
Performer:
Nakamura Kichiemon, Iwashita Shima, Takita Yūsuke, Komatsu Hōsei, Fujiwara Kamatari, Katō Yoshi, Kawarazaki Shizue, Hidari Tokie.
Technical Details:
DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; Dolby Digital mono.
Language:
Japanese language soundtrack with optional English subtitles.