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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Meiko KajiO-Hatsu
Ryudo UzakiTokubei
Hisashi IgawaKyuemon
Sachiko HidariO-Sai
Isao HashimotoKuheiji
Shigeo KatōCast
Gen KimuraKichibei
Sachiko MeguroCast
Kazuyo AokiCast
Ren YamamotoCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Yasuzō Masumura
- Director of Photography
- Setsuo Kobayashi
- Original Music Composer
- Ryudo Uzaki
- Editor
- Tatsuji Nakashizu
- Screenplay
- Yasuzō Masumura
- Screenplay
- Yoshio Shirasaka
- Producer
- Hiroaki Fujii
- Producer
- Ryuhei Nishimura