心中天網島 = Double suicide
表現社, 日本アートシアターギルド ; 製作, 中島正幸, 篠田正浩 ; 原作, 近松門左衛門 ; 脚色, 富岡多恵子, 武満徹, 篠田正浩 ; 監督, 篠田正浩 = A Hyogensha-ATG Production ; Producers, Masayuki Nakajima, Masahiro Shinoda ; Screenplay, Tomioka Taeko, Toru Takemitsu, Masahiro Shinoda ; from the original play by Monzaemon Chikamatsu ; Director, Masahiro Shinoda, 篠田正浩 (Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter), 中島正幸 (Film producer), 富岡多恵子 (Screenwriter), 武満徹 (Screenwriter, Composer), 中村吉右衛門 (Actor), 岩下志麻 (Actor), 小松方正 (Actor), 滝田裕介 (Actor), 藤原鎌足 (Actor), 成島東一郎, 粟津潔 (Art director), 近松門左衛門, 表現社 (Production company), Art Theatre Guild (Production company), Janus Films (Production company), Criterion Collection (Firm) (Film distributor) / Hyōgen-sha, Nihon Āto Shiatā Girudo ; seisaku, Nakajima Masayuki, Shinoda Masahiro ; gensaku, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ; kyakushoku, Tomioka Taeko, Takemitsu Tōru, Shinoda Masahiro ; kantoku, Shinoda Masahiro = A Hyogensha-ATG Production ; Producers, Masayuki Nakajima, Masahiro Shinoda ; Screenplay, Tomioka Taeko, Toru Takemitsu, Masahiro Shinoda ; from the original play by Monzaemon Chikamatsu ; Director, Masahiro Shinoda, Masahiro Shinoda (Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter), Masayuki Nakajima (Film producer), Taeko Tomioka (Screenwriter), Tōru Takemitsu (Screenwriter, Composer), Kichiemon Nakamura (Actor), Shima Iwashita (Actor), Hōsei Komatsu (Actor), Yūsuke Takita (Actor), Kamatari Fujiwara (Actor), Tōichirō Narushima, Kiyoshi Awazu (Art director), Monzaemon Chikamatsu
In this stylized dramatization of the puppet theater play, Jihei abandons business, family and self respect for a passionate love affair with a geisha whose freedom he cannot afford. As the world closes in upon him, he finds his only course of action to be in death together with the lover he is unable to obtain in life
DVD Video, Japanese, 2000