TY - ADVS
T1 - Double Suicide and the 'fetishism of space'
AU - Rutherford, Anne
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Published in Senses of Cinema, Issue 59 (2011). It is rare today to find a film as highly stylised as Shinju: Ten no amijima (Double Suicide)" especially one in which the stylisation is so exquisitely sustained across every level of set design, performance, sound and dramaturgy. Based on a bunraku theatre script written by the most famous premodern Japanese dramatist, Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Double Suicide is a period film set among the merchant class of Osaka. The inability of a merchant, Jihei, to pay out the debts of his lover, the courtesan, Koharu, leads to their decision to seek a shinju" a lovers' suicide" so they can be together in the next world.
AB - Published in Senses of Cinema, Issue 59 (2011). It is rare today to find a film as highly stylised as Shinju: Ten no amijima (Double Suicide)" especially one in which the stylisation is so exquisitely sustained across every level of set design, performance, sound and dramaturgy. Based on a bunraku theatre script written by the most famous premodern Japanese dramatist, Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Double Suicide is a period film set among the merchant class of Osaka. The inability of a merchant, Jihei, to pay out the debts of his lover, the courtesan, Koharu, leads to their decision to seek a shinju" a lovers' suicide" so they can be together in the next world.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/562749
UR - http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/cteq/double-suicide-and-the-%E2%80%9Cfetishism-of-space%E2%80%9D/
M3 - Textual Works
PB - Senses of Cinema Inc.
CY - Melbourne, Vic.
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