“Suicide of Lovers on the Island of Heavenly Networks” ( 心中 天網 島 Shinju: Ten no amijima , the film was shown at the international box office under the English name Double Suicide / Double Suicide ) directed by Masahiro Synoda screens in 1969 . A film adaptation of the eponymous drama of the great playwright of the Middle Ages Mondzaemon Tikamatsu . The film-winner of the most prestigious Japanese film awards " Kinema Jumpo " and " Minichi " for the best film of 1969.
| Suicide of lovers on the island of Heavenly nets | |
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| Japanese 心中 天網 島 ( Shinju ten no amidzima ) English Double suicide | |
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| Genre | movie drama |
| Producer | Masahiro Synod |
| Producer | Masayuki Nakajima Masahiro Synod |
| Author script | Taeko Tomioka, Tohru Takemitsu Masahiro Synod |
| In the main cast | Kitiyemon Nakamura , Shima Iwashita , Hosei Komatsu |
| Operator | Toichiro Narusima |
| Composer | Tohru Takemitsu |
| Film company | Art Theater Guild, Hyôgen-sha |
| Duration | 103 minutes |
| A country |  Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Year | 1969 |
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Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Premieres
- 4 Awards and nominations
- 5 notes
- 6 References
- 7 Literature
Story
This film traces the main conflict in Japanese dramatic art between the kettlebell (the duty of devotion, as understood in medieval Japan) and the ninja (the natural feelings of man). The main character of the film, a merchant Jihei is married and has two children, but falls in love with a courtesan Koharu. Since there is no way to be together in this world, Jihe sees the only possible solution in the form of double suicide with his beloved.
Cast
- Kitiyemon Nakamura - Jihei
- Shima Iwashita - Koharu / Osan
- Hosei Komatsu - Tahei
- Yusuke Takita - Magaemon
- Kamatari Fujiwara - Danbei
- Yoshi Kato - Gosaemon
- Shizue Kawarazaki - Osan's mother
- Tokie Hidari - Osugi
- Sumiko Hidaka - Mistress
- Takashi Sue - Shop Owner
- Makoto Akatsuka - Sangoro
- Unko Uehara - Otama
Premieres
- - May 24, 1969 the national premiere of the film in Tokyo [1] .
- - The American premiere of the film took place on February 11, 1970 in New York [1] .
Awards and nominations
... Conventionality and decorativeness, borrowed from the traditional art of Japan, have become the main style-forming principle of the film. The predestination of fate, the acceptance of life as it is, are all these purely national features of the Japanese worldview expressed in images characteristic of traditional art. Realizing its principle of "transformation of reality", the Synod creates in the film a conditional and at the same time reverently living, reliable world.
Kinem Jumpo Magazine Award (1970) [3]
- Won:
- 1969 Best Film Award
- 1969 Best Actress Award - Sima Iwashita
- Best Director Award - Masahiro Synoda
Mainity Film Award (1970) [3]
- Won:
This is the most outstanding movie I've ever seen. The director of the Synod (considered one of the members of the “new wave” along with Nagisa Oshima) adapted the play of 1720 about a merchant who sacrifices his wife and children for the love of a courtesan. The synod begins its film in a modern puppet theater with puppeteers preparing for the show. When the story itself begins, the Synod replaces the puppets with real actors, but the presence of puppeteers remains. Kurogo (“a man in black” is a puppeteer of a medieval theater), move between characters, helping to position them and manipulate history.
- 1969 Best Film Award
- 1969 Best Actress Award - Sima Iwashita
- Award for Best Soundtrack - Tohru Takemitsu
- Best Sound Award - Hideo Nishizaki
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 IMDb-Release Info
- ↑ Gens, Inna Yuliusovna . "Challenging: Japanese filmmakers of the 60-70's.", All-Russian Research Institute of Art Criticism. - M.: Art, 1988 .-- 271 S. (pp. 89-90).
- ↑ 1 2 IMDb-Awards
- ↑ Jeffrey M. Anderson on combustiblecelluloid.com
Links
- " Lovers' Suicide on Heavenly Net Island ” on the Internet Movie Database
- Review by Roger Greenspoon of the New York Times (03/11/1971)
Literature
- Gens, Inna Yuliusovna . “Challenging: Japanese filmmakers of the 60-70's." / Poslesov. V. Tsvetova; All-Russian Research Institute of Art History. - M.: Art, 1988. - 271 S. (p. 87-92)