Nishijin is a district in Kyoto famous for “Nishijin-ori”, an ultra-expensive fabric produced with traditional means. Yoichi Takabayashi takes the folk story standard of the double suicide (between a prostitute and a poor worker) and places it in the particular setting in the 70s in “Double Suicide at Nishijin”, in an approach though, that could easily take place in the 1700s, when the original double suicide story was first presented.
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Yumi is a very beautiful young girl, who, as the story begins, is running away from her lover in Osaka, who has just been bankrupted, and wants to commit a double suicide with her. After the investigation, a kind-hearted, middle aged policeman, Amano, gives her money to return to her mother in Fukushima. She, however, takes the money and decides to stay in Osaka, eventually deciding to become an...
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Yumi is a very beautiful young girl, who, as the story begins, is running away from her lover in Osaka, who has just been bankrupted, and wants to commit a double suicide with her. After the investigation, a kind-hearted, middle aged policeman, Amano, gives her money to return to her mother in Fukushima. She, however, takes the money and decides to stay in Osaka, eventually deciding to become an...
- 9/1/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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