Shinju ten no amijima
Subtitle: Double suicide
By: a Hyogensha-ATG production ; directed by Masahiro Shinoda ; story by Chikamatsu Monzaemon ; screenplay by Masahiro Shinoda, Toru Takemitsu, Taeko Tomioka
Contributors: Iwashita, Shima; Komatsu, Hōsei; Hidari, Tokie; Katō, Yoshi, 1913-1988; Kawarazaki, Shizue; Takita, Yusuke; Hyogensha-ATG
Edition: Standard format.
Series: Criterion collection -- 104; Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) -- 104.
Publisher: Criterion Collection; Home Vision Cinema
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Chicago]
Language: jpn
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Drama; Social life and customs; Man-woman relationships; Suicide; Prostitutes
Other titles: Double suicide
Description: Jihei, a married shopkeeper falls in love with Koharu, a prostitute. Bound by duty, and too poor to pay her way out of bondage, Jihei asks Koharu to enter a suicide pact, the only way they can be free.
Notes: Transliterated Japanese title from Internet Movie Database.

Production credits from insert.

Based on the puppet play by Monzaemon Chikamatsu.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969.

Cinematography, Toichiro Narushima ; music, Toru Takemitsu.

Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Hosei Komatsu, Tokie Hidari, Yoshi Kato, Shizue Kawarazaki, Kichiemon Nakamura, Yusuke Takita.

DVD player required; mono.; region 1.

Soundtrack in English or Japanese; subtitles in English.