Double suicide and the 'fetishism of space'

Anne Rutherford

Double suicide and the 'fetishism of space'

Anne Rutherford

School of Arts

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It is rare today to find a film as highly stylised as Shinju: Ten no amijima (Double Suicide) ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ 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 ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ a loversÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢ suicide ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ so they can be together in the next world.

Original language	English
Number of pages	2
Journal	Senses of Cinema
Publication status	Published - 2011

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Keywords

Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, 1653-1725
Japan
Shinju ten no Amijima
feature films

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Double suicide and the 'fetishism of space'

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