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Shinjū is a Japanese term meaning "double suicide", used in common parlance to refer to any group suicide of two or more individuals bound by love, typically lovers, parents and children, and even whole families.
Double Suicide (心中天網島, Shinjū Ten no Amijima) is a 1969 Japanese historical drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It is based on the 1721 bunraku (traditional puppet theatre) play The Love Suicides at Amijima by Monzaemon Chikamatsu.
Double Suicide: Directed by Masahiro Shinoda. With Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Shizue Kawarazaki, Tokie Hidari. A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.
In this striking adaptation of a Bunraku puppet play (featuring the music of famed composer Toru Takemitsu), a paper merchant sacrifices family, fortune, and ultimately life for his erotic obsession with a prostitute. Criterion is proud to present Double Suicide in a stunning digital transfer, with a new and improved English subtitle translation.
Doble suicidio es una película dirigida por Masahiro Shinoda con Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Kamatari Fujiwara, Jun Hamamura .... Año: 1969. Título original: Shinjû: Ten no amijima (Double Suicide).
Shot in stark black and white, Double Suicide is an eye-popping and inventive adaptation that shows off the creativity of the Japanese New Wave and director Masahiro Shinoda.
Keiko McDonald has outlined the culturally-coded motifs of freedom and constraint that underpin the construction of space and set design in Double Suicide: lattice windows, grids and checkered walls as symbolic of entrapment; images of water alluding to Buddhist symbols of liberation .
