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Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1978-04-29
- video_camera_front Companies Art Theatre Guild
- timer Runtime: 112 Mins
- star Rating: 6.8 / 10
- favorite Likes: 8 Likes
- info IMDB ID tt0077463
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Meiko Kaji
Ryudo Uzaki
Hisashi Igawa
Sachiko Hidari
Isao Hashimoto
Shigeo Katô
Gen Kimura
Jun Haichi
Sachiko Meguro
Kazuyo Aoki
Yûko Chiba
Ren Yamamoto
groups Crew
Yasuzō Masumura
Director
Monzaemon Chikamatsu
Original Story
Ryudo Uzaki
Original Music Composer
Katsuhiko Sato
Lighting Technician
Yasuzō Masumura
Screenplay
Yoshio Shirasaka
Screenplay
Shigeo Mano
Art Direction
Setsuo Kobayashi
Director of Photography
Tatsuji Nakashizu
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