Double Suicide
Double Suicide (心中天網島 Shinjū: Ten no amijima) is a 1969 film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It is based on the 1721 play The Love Suicides at Amijima by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. This play is often performed in the bunraku style (that is, with puppets). In the film, the story is performed with live actors, but also makes use of Japanese theatrical traditions such as the kuroko (stagehands dressed entirely in black) who invisibly interact with the actors, and the set is non-realist. The film opens with the preparations by the kuroko for a modern-day presentation of a puppet play while a voice-over is heard of someone, presumably the director, calling on the telephone to find a location for the penultimate scene of the lovers' suicide. Soon human actors are substituted for the puppets, and the ac
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Double Suicide
Double Suicide (心中天網島 Shinjū: Ten no amijima) is a 1969 film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It is based on the 1721 play The Love Suicides at Amijima by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. This play is often performed in the bunraku style (that is, with puppets). In the film, the story is performed with live actors, but also makes use of Japanese theatrical traditions such as the kuroko (stagehands dressed entirely in black) who invisibly interact with the actors, and the set is non-realist. The film opens with the preparations by the kuroko for a modern-day presentation of a puppet play while a voice-over is heard of someone, presumably the director, calling on the telephone to find a location for the penultimate scene of the lovers' suicide. Soon human actors are substituted for the puppets, and the ac
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Double Suicide (心中天網島 Shinjū: ...... n Region 1 on 30 January 2001.
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Double suicide à Amijima (心中天網 ...... 1721) de Monzaemon Chikamatsu.
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«Самоубийство влюблённых на ос ...... ти» за лучший фильм 1969 года.
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『心中天網島』(しんじゅうてんのあみじま)は、1969年5月 ...... ンされたほか、毎日映画コンクール日本映画大賞などに選ばれた。
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1969-05-24
1970-02-11
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Double Suicide (心中天網島 Shinjū: ...... ed for the puppets, and the ac
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Double suicide à Amijima (心中天網 ...... 1721) de Monzaemon Chikamatsu.
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«Самоубийство влюблённых на ос ...... ти» за лучший фильм 1969 года.
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『心中天網島』(しんじゅうてんのあみじま)は、1969年5月 ...... ンされたほか、毎日映画コンクール日本映画大賞などに選ばれた。
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Double Suicide
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Double suicide à Amijima
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Самоубийство влюблённых на острове Небесных сетей
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心中天網島 (映画)
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Double Suicide
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