Yasuzo Masumura – Sonezaki Shinju AKA Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978)

From All Movie Guide:
“Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating. Though similar in story and period, this is a different film from the 1969 Double Suicide by director Masahiro Shinoda.”

Meiko Kaji received the Kinema Jumpo Award (the Japanese Oscar) as best actress for her performance.

Sonezaki Shinju.1978.BDRip.AVC.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 52 min
Size: 	3.42 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	4 151 kb/s
BPP: 	0.391
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/FA0847DDD88EDB9/Sonezaki_Shinju.1978.BDRip.AVC.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Russian